From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 9 19:41:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03995 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:41:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03982 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:41:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from exit1.i485.net (ts2-cltnc-79.cetlink.net [209.54.58.79]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA02135; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:41:33 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Konrad Heuer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiprocessing in FreeBSD Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 04:42:05 GMT Message-ID: <34dfd6b6.5886257@mail.cetlink.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id TAA03984 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:44:10 +0100 (CET), Konrad Heuer wrote: >I know SMP is in FreeBSD-current. What are the experiences? Does it behave >well? Will there be a chance for a RELEASE with SMP support this year? You don't have to wait for a "release." From time to time, -current is pretty "stable," although not -stable. So much has been added to -current and not back ported to -stable that by now, -stable seems more like -stale. I FTP with Midnight Commander and go to releng22.FreeBSD.org to pick up the latest SNAP of -current. Midnight Commander makes copying the whole directory tree a breeze. With a 128k ISDN line it only takes about 2 hours to download. Put the SNAP directory on a local FTP or NFS server, make the boot floppy, and you will be -current in a jiffy. If you get a SNAP of -current which happens to be especially "stable" for you, you can always use the "date" tag with CVSup to reproduce the same tree at a later time for installation of other machines. -- The day of the proprietary OS is over. Long live free software. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message