libkse to libpthread switch on FreeBSD

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 2, 2004 @04:40AM from the moving-forward dept.

Dan writes "Daniel Eischen says that libkse has been renamed back to libpthread and is now the default threads library. The gcc-pthread option has also been changed to link to libpthread instead of libc_r. For alpha and sparc64 machines, libkse has not been renamed and links are installed so that libpthread points to libc_r. FreeBSD GNOME team's Joe Marcus Clarke confirmed that the ports system will switch to using libpthread as the default for PTHREAD_LIBS shortly. A patch set is currently being tested, once that completes, the necessary port hooks will be in place to easily build applications linked to libpthread."

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Re:BSD may be dying... by FutureShoks · 2004-02-02 05:54 · Score: 3, Interesting

BSD is not dying. I remember reading a survey not a month ago that surveyed some top ISPs. FreeBSD running Apache was, according to the article, the most popular and widely used ISP platform there is. Period.
Linux is trying to "do a Windows" and be all things to all men as quickly as possible.
FreeBSD is more like a working pick-up truck. They don't have a wide range of paint colors and picking up chicks with them can be hard - but they do what they are built for, and they do it very well.

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