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1999/8/13-15 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:16307 Activity:kinda low
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