8/13 Does FreeBSD or Linux support PC-compatibles that have multiple
processors?
\_ Yes.
\_ Which one? Both?
\_ Linux supports SMP since 2.0. If you're adventurous you
can try the experimental 2.3 kernels which supposedly
fixes many of the performance bottlenecks involved in
SMP or you can wait for 2.4 to come out. Don't know
about FreeBSD. I assume they're working on it too.
\_ FreeBSD supports SMP since 3.0.
\_ who cares.. run solaris.
\_ FreeBSD as of 3.1 supports SMP pretty well. I've talked to
a fair number of people who run 3.2 on multiproc machines
very reliably. -John |