From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 0:15: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4F037BB28 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:14:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA13420; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:11:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:11:28 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Konrad Heuer Cc: p_a_r , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD VS BDS Message-ID: <20000328001128.A10961@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <81491281.2.1636@mx1-12.onmedia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 09:39:11AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 09:39:11AM +0200, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > The most important strength of NetBSD is its availability on many > different hardware platforms. If you plan to set up your servers on Intel > or DECalpha software, FreeBSD might do better for you. For example, > FreeBSD supports multi-processor systems, NetBSD does not. The FreeBSD > install program is more user-friendly. Just FYI, NetBSD does now have early SMP support. Initial x86 SMP code was commited Feb 22. Obviously, you probably don't want to go running a high-availibility server application on SMP code that's only a month old, but it's coming along. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message