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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. Not to be trollish.... by unterderbrucke · · Score: 0, Troll

    But most other OS have had it for a while now. Why has BSD taken so long?

  2. Re:It's about friggin time they did... by Gothmolly · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well fsck Theo, then. Seriously, you'd never run into this in Linux, because Linux has multiple working journaling filesystems - no need to fsck.
    Wait, did I just troll?

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