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Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the getting-to-know dept.

Gentu writes "The main commercial company behind NetBSD is Wasabi Systems. The company has contributed advances and big chunks of code to the open source project, while they do offer a boxed release of NetBSD. However, their main business for the company is the embedded market and NetBSD is marketed as an embedded OS. OSNews talked to the Vice President of Wasabi Systems, Jay Michaelson. Linux in the embedded market is also discussed."

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  1. Re:Well? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wrong! I think FreeBSD has had SMP support even longer than Linux, alas it was for DEC Alpha only way back in the begining of the project.
    Most Linux user make fun of GIANT, but in reality it's not much of an issue, as the system shouldn't spend time in the kernel (as it does in Linux) but actually run userland stuff, so, GIANT isn't that much of an issue on 8 or less CPU's.