On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, John Indra wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:24:11AM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> >	Its a little more portable for a start - I use it on a bunch of Linux
> >	boxes I have to admin, which does make them fseel surprisingly sane...
>
> Hah? /usr/pkgsrc can be brought to Linux and works the same like in NetBSD?
> Now... that's neat :P

	I don't know about the X applications as the Linux machines on which I
	use it are all servers, but see the pkg_info at the end of this
	message.

> >	NetBSD is still in the process of moving to SMP(not-ng :). Its in
> >	the main tree on alpha and vax, in a branch for i386, and still
>
> Ah!?!
> Am I understanding the right thing?
> Does that mean NetBSD cannot work on SMP i386 machine now?
> WOW... that's quite shocking.

	The main branch of NetBSD will not take advantage of extra i386 CPUs,
	though obviously it will run on one. There is a development branch
	which some people run in day to day use, but is not considered
	production-ready.

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