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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 jfedor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't matter which CD set you buy, what's important is that the project gets the money.

    You can always get the latest release by FTP.

    So why don't you just buy the current release now.

    -jfedor

  2. Re:Great news by joib · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd say the main reason for Linux development continuing rapidly despite the economy is that the Linux market is orders of magnitude larger than the *BSD market, so the distro makers (and other companies who employ Linux kernel hackers) have the money to keep Linux kernel hackers employed.

  3. Re:Wow! by ajs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok, I grant your comment is funny, but I'm a Linux user (and sympathizer :) who grew up on BSD, and it really pains me to think that any OS (Solaris, Linux, HP/UX, etc) needs to be viewed as a competitor to BSD rather than a fellow citizen in the realm of UNIX and UNIX-derived OSes.

    Each has its niche, and while some of those niches wane over time (e.g. SCO, IRIX, DG/UX), others flourish (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris) and that's a good thing. They continue to flow into the containers that they define, rather than having to attack eachother as many products do.