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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. Wow! by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 5, Funny

    In related news, the Egyptians are on the cusp of discovering Construction, which will allow them to build Aqueduct and Coliseum. However, this is not expected to improve the odds of their feared Chariot against invading Mechanized Infantry.

  2. Sweet Mother of Blowfish by echorun · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sweet now I can have more than one fish in the box.

    --
    The human condition is to not accept the human condition.
  3. It just goes to show by drivers · · Score: 1, Funny

    Those who don't use Linux are doomed to reimplement it... again.

    1. Re:It just goes to show by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

      Those who don't use Linux are doomed to reimplement it... again.

      I believe that should be: "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." -- Henry Spencer

      Or maybe: "NT is a weak form of Unix like a donut is a weak form of a particle accelerator." -- MBCook

  4. Re:Great news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    MS-DOS - No root exploits, no patches since 1981!

  5. Re:Great news by jfedor · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 7 years!"

    What puzzles me is how they jumped from "nearly 6 years" to "more than 7 years" in less than a year. :)

    -jfedor

  6. Re:Is it really needed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    but for the target market that OBSD has, is SMP really *that* important?

    I don't think so. There aren't all that many SMP 486s to begin with.