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NetBSD Now Has Native pthreads!

Posted by timothy on from the restless-threads-are-next dept.

jschauma writes, quoting the NetBSD changelog, was one of several people to point out that "Jason Thorpe has merged the nathanw_sa branch with -current. NetBSD now has a high performance, modern kernel thread implementation using Scheduler Activations in the main source tree. This work was performed by Nathan Williams with contributions by several other developers."

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  1. O factor? by hackwrench · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But what's its O factor.

  2. Sorry, off topic, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FreeBSD 5.0 has been released!

    1. Re:Sorry, off topic, by infonography · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Thats FreeBSD 5.0, RC3 and it's almost off topic.

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      Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
    2. Re:Sorry, off topic, by Arandir · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Shhhh! If we're lucky, we might actually get a release announcement before some Slashdot editor shoots his wad all over FreeBSD's bandwidth.

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      A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
    3. Re:Sorry, off topic, by infonography · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      ah, the wonders of ncftp got me the all three iso images while I slept. look up the man page for ncftp about bgget, you can log out and forget about it.

      --
      Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
  3. MOD PARENT UP! (S�ore:+5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I wonder why you can't write (Score: ) in the subject... what an odd feature of the lameness filter.