Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0beta1 - Port of HotJava to FreeBSD and NetBSD More Usefull?
To: None <jehamby@lightside.com, terry@lambert.org>
From: Pete Delaney <pete@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 10/13/1995 01:35:40
Terry:
>
> > I heard there was some fairly good progress being made on a Linux port.
> > Is this true? Because if the Linux people have a working version, then a
> > FreeBSD/NetBSD version would be almost trivial from there.
>
> Not so. According to Linus (and Alan Cox), Linux has kernel multithreading.
I suppose a thread library, like SusOS has, is likely necessary, but I really doubt
kernel multithreading is necessary. Any bets?
-pete