Re: a question about slashdot and SMP

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

> i read the slashdot, freshmeat and newsforge all moving from linux to
> freebsd for its "enhanced SMP capabilities".
> 
> does anybody know exactly what this means? 

Basically, this means you're an April's Fool...

> is SMP under linux really not as polished as freebsd?

Linux SMP is ahead of FreeBSD's, but they're working on
something called SMPng, you may want to search for it on
the FreeBSD website, it's an interesting read.

Rik
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