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OpenBSD SMP In The Works

Posted by timothy on from the open-as-in-sights dept.

Cajal writes "Four students at the University of Waterloo are working to add SMP support to OpenBSD as part of the Spinlocks project. More information is available in a story at the OpenBSD Journal's site. They expect to have an initial working MP kernel in January."

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  1. Re:The problem with OpenBSD.. by Lxy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Buying a copy of OpenBSD seems fundamentally flawed.

    Isn't it the OpenBSD folks who are telling people not to make ISOs because the codebase changes frequently enough? Why would you purchase a set of discs to perform multiple installs when OpenBSD developers recommend against using a static copy?

    Sure, I can understand buying copies to support OpenBSD. I buy Redhat for the same reason, it's more principle than the actual material in the box. It sounds like you're buying it to actually have a set of BSD discs. It just seems flawed to me. I'd rather grab a fresh snapshot off OpenBSD's servers each install to make sure I'm getting all the latest features.

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  2. Waterloo? by sean23007 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The University of Waterloo, eh? Well, knowing them, the versions of OpenBSD with SMP support will require a Windows XP activation key...

    Or maybe they figured out a way to port OpenBSd to Windows. Or something. Waterloo?

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  3. OpenBSD by PegQuin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    OpenBFD.

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