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NetBSD/sparc Now With SMP

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 7, 2003 @04:43AM from the soon-you'll-have-a-fire dept.

jschauma writes "Largely due to the efforts of Paul Kranenburg, NetBSD -current now supports SMP on sparc. It has been tested on a SPARCstation 20/712, sun4/690 and other systems. See Matthew Green's message to the port-sparc mailing list." (i386 got this back in October.)

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Re:Cool! by SN74S181 · 2003-01-07 12:18 · Score: 2, Informative

My rickety old SS10 is a SS10BSX, so it would be a true waste to run anything but Solaris. In addition to two processors it has dual CG14 video hardware on the motherboard and there isn't a 'free' X server out there that supports single, let alone dual CG14 on a SS10.