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SMP On OpenBSD, Coming Soon

Posted by timothy on from the faster-if-you-pay dept.

Lord of the OpenBSD writes "At long last, SMP development on OpenBSD looks to be gearing up. One person is now doing full-time funded development on SMP. Project leader Theo de Raadt is now asking for funding for a second developer. Theo has announced that SMP support for i386 is planned for the OpenBSD 3.6 or 3.7 release, the first of which is due in 8 months."

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  1. Re:smp? by Herbster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    oops. Because OpenBSD is focused on security. This means they don't compromise by spreading development effort that could be best spent on making the OS more secure.

  2. Re:Yesterday's Technology, Tomorrow! by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of course you guys realize the mission of OBSD is not tossing in every feature you can think of trying to keep up with the Gates', its something else altogether, thankfully.

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  3. Re:Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    have to admit that Theo doesn't play nice even with those NOT beneath him


    Ever play with a cat? You swat at its head a bit, it tries to bite back or swat back, roll it around, it scratches your hand, etc, etc, the same way one cat plays with another - the nibbles and scratches don't really hurt a fellow cat. Theo plays rough with people, has thick skin, and expects others to play as rough as he does (yes rough often == flame wars, etc). He plays rough with everyone, irregardless of how much work you do, though he does really respect those who do good work (he'll talk *very* highly of them).


    I don't much care for that attitude, but i also recognize that i am the same way with some people (at work, among co-workers, we hurl insults back and forth and call eachother on our fuck ups, but also respect eachother's work abilities and will say so when asked). Theo is just that much more consistent than i am.

  4. Re:I Will Be Amazed If This Works by Sloppy · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Maybe Theo sees that his view of SMP will be irrelevant when everyone has SMP hardware. It doesn't matter if lots of individual machines are better than SMP machines, when 6 years from now, a new $700 Wal-Mart PC has a $85 dual-core processor.

    The Pentium 4's hyperthreading feature already hints at this. And if you have this stuff anyway (even when you didn't ask for it) you might as well use it.

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