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On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:16:49 -0400
jhell <jhell@dataix.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> I'm afraid that you are confused about what the scheduler in the
> FreeBSD kernel does and what the Aurora Scheduler is. They are not
> relational to one another in any such way.
> ...
> There is not a similiar scheduling program in FreeBSD but there is
> Evolution, Kontact and other such things to manage your time.

I suspect he's talking about using algorithms from project management
software in an embedded kernel to help it schedule around real-time
deadlines and so on.