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OpenBSD AMD64 SMP in testing

Posted by Hemos on from the joanne-pater-will-love-it dept.

agent dero writes "Naysayers beware, at the recent Calgary OpenBSD Hackathon, there has been some major improvements in OpenBSD's SMP support which was recently merged with -current. According to this recent article at undeadly.org the code is ready for testing, but the OpenBSD team could really use some permanent AMD64 SMP hardware for testing. Notable achievments include a kernel compile in around 80 seconds."

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  1. Re:really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't worry, it soon will be. A quad opteron will generate enough heat to permanently kill any operating system.

  2. Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Notable achievments include a kernel compile in around 80 seconds.

    Imagine a distributed kernel compile with distcc. Or perhaps a beowulf cluster compile? Or is that only a Linux thing?

  3. Re:really? by YU+Nicks+NE+Way · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, no, no. *BSD isn't dead, it's just dying -- it's official, Netcraft has been confirming it for about ten years. And PC Week has already told us that Apple is dead -- they're closely tied because Apple uses a BSD user space on top of a Mach kernel.

    Posted on Mozilla on FreeBSD 5.2--a dead browser on a dead OS. Dead on.