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NetBSD Now Supports Dual Power PC Processors

Posted by timothy on from the shiny-boxes dept.

djcdplaya writes: "DaemonNews is reporting that the good guys over at NetBSD have gotten dual PowerPC processors working on dual-G4 Apples. The NetBSD mailing can be found here."

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  1. Re:*BSD is dying by cuba++ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well as a linux fan I have to disagree.
    I use OpenBSD for my firewall and I'm quite satisfied. Big telco company in Czech Republic uses FreeBSD for their mail and secondary servers and so on. *BSD is fine and (look for changelogs) not dying.

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    Cuba++ let's make ++ better
  2. NetBSD in OS X by foniksonik · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought the point of this was so that the NetBSD portion of OS X's Darwin would finally be capable of utilizing dual CPUs. Am I missing something?

    If previously NetBSD in OS X, et al was only cinlge CPU aware then OS X Server has been sub-optimal from it's inception as a server and now should see very nice performance improvements to such things as the TCP/IP stack and many other networking technologies.

    I'm definitely curious to see what impact this will have for OS X Server. I assume that it was Apple's engineers that privided the 'last mile' details to get this working... nicde work people.

    Maybe we'll be seeing TiVos with Dual G4 PPCs running NetBSD in the future or something too..

    BTW, does anyone know if PPC Linux distros are MP aware?

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    A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
  3. Re:To all the ppl saying BSD is dead by CoolVibe · · Score: 3, Interesting
    When microsoft is the alternative, why squabble over kernel flavors?

    Just ignore the trolls, this is exactly what they want.

    I am running Linux- and Windowsless too, I like BSD, there's nothing wrong with it. It's just a UNIX flavour indeed. Just like Solaris (and SunOS, which was BSD based too)

    And for the poor people that actually believe the "BSD is dead" trolls, well, I hope they happen on a BSD system one day and see the beauty of it.

    Everything I have runs on BSD, and it hasn't let me down once (well, not counting my FreeBSD CURRENT box, but hey, that's bleeding edge for ya).

    Oh, and even the allmighty Redmondian Giant uses BSD. Check out hotmail mail headers, you might see a Qmail MTA in there somewhere. Microsoft still uses FreeBSD at HotMail for the backend. Apparently the Win2k machines can't keep up :)