FreeBSD SMPng Interview with Scott Long

animus9 writes "There's an interesting interview with Scott Long over at the ONLamp.com. Scott explains the difference between the various locking methods, and the current status of SMP in FreeBSD 5. He also compares the new SMP implementation with that of FreeBSD 4.x, NetBSD, DragonFly, and Linux. Other items touched upon include scalability, the status of KSE & ULE, and much more."

Re:Waaaa?

[MPHellwig]

"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." by M. Gandhi.

This phrase has often be used to describe the MS Windows - Gnu/Linux relationship.

It seems to mee some of the Linux zealots forgot there heritage.
Forgot that Linux is just a kernel without GNU.
Forgot that there could not have been there, where there are now, without the BSD licensed software.
Forgot what free software was all about.

I'll stick to my BSD's at least there is some real progress there without the attitude.

Re:Requiem for the FUD

[Anonymous Coward]

>> Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

> Unless that code is *running* on YOUR COMPUTER!

I don't think so. If the author of the software is ready to take the responsibility of what his software does, that's quite acceptable to me, since in case of a malicious behaviour of his software I can sue him.

Of course, having the source code is way better. But it's a desirable thing, not something absolutely necessary - let alone a "freedom". :)
Example: as a browser, I use both Firefox and Opera. The fact that Opera is proprietary doesn't bother me at all.

It's like with the food I eat: I need the ingredients (assurance on what the software *does*), not the recipe (source code). If I get the recipe as well, so much the better.
That's how I see it.

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

Re:Waaaa?

[LWATCDR]

"I'll stick to my BSD's at least there is some real progress there without the attitude."
Which BSD is that? From what I have seen BSD is not lacking in attitudes.

meh

[ArbitraryConstant]

I disagree with zealotry in any form, and that includes ignoring Linux as an alternative when it's actually pretty decent at a lot of things.

However, the 2.6 kernel has been a mess from day one. I'm used to new versions being a bit buggy, but the kernel developers keep adding new bugs.

First, there was that memory leak with burners. Now more recently they've been moving to libata, and that prevents SATA and PATA drives from being used at the same time on my system because libata does not yet support PATA drives, and all the ATA controllers are on the same chipset. I've had to install an old Promise ATA controller to have a CD drive on my system.

They say it's up to the distributions to stabalize their own kernels, but the distributions clearly don'thave the resources to do that.

Time to fork 2.7 guys!