Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Nov 2005 21:05 UTC, submitted by Valour
FreeBSD "The FreeBSD operating system is finally through it's buggy 5.x series and into the more reliable 6.x series. Most of the problems of the old days - kernel panics on multi-CPU machines, AMD64 troubles galore, and shaky network drivers - are gone. FreeBSD still isn't perfect, but at least with 6.0-RELEASE it's more stable and functional than it has been in the recent past."
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RE[2]: SMP support
by Lazarus on Thu 10th Nov 2005 02:44 UTC in reply to "RE: SMP support"
Lazarus
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2005-08-10

I found the following email rather informative WRT DragonFly's threaded messaging system and why it was chosen for DragonFly over the spinlocks of Linux, or the "softer" locks of FreeBSD:

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2005-01/msg00194.htm...

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