From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 14:31:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C68A37B423 for <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:31:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA81614; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:31:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3AE74244.FA778D6D@nisser.com> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:31:48 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> Organization: Nisser - Nr. 1 in Veiligheid X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dleimbac@earthlink.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Misinformation References: <200104251242.FAA24271@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Leimbach wrote: > > I have run into a few people who made the following false claims about > freeBSD. > These people sounded like they knew what they were talking about when I > first spoke with them. > > 1) Its based on Mach. > 2) The SMP in FreeBSD is far superior to even Linux 2.4.x > > ... Could be they were referring Apple's OS/X. That is FreeBSD but with a Mach 3 - not sure about the version - kernel. If so then the SMP remarks might pertain to that kernel. Roelof -- Nisser home -- http://nl.Nisser.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message