From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 13 02:22:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA23203 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 02:22:43 -0700 Received: from tango.rahul.net (tango.rahul.net [192.160.13.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA23180 ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 02:22:36 -0700 Received: from bolero.rahul.net by tango.rahul.net with SMTP id AA15092 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 13 Oct 1995 02:22:20 -0700 Received: from RockyMountain.rahul.net by bolero.rahul.net with SMTP id AA04139 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 13 Oct 1995 02:22:17 -0700 Received: by RockyMountain.rahul.net id AA03397 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Fri, 13 Oct 1995 01:35:40 -0700 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 01:35:40 -0700 From: Pete Delaney Message-Id: <199510130835.AA03397@RockyMountain.rahul.net> To: jehamby@lightside.com, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0beta1 - Port of HotJava to FreeBSD and NetBSD More Usefull? Cc: pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-ports@netbsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Terry: > > > I heard there was some fairly good progress being made on a Linux port. > > Is this true? Because if the Linux people have a working version, then a > > FreeBSD/NetBSD version would be almost trivial from there. > > Not so. According to Linus (and Alan Cox), Linux has kernel multithreading. I suppose a thread library, like SusOS has, is likely necessary, but I really doubt kernel multithreading is necessary. Any bets? -pete