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Live from EuroBSDCon 2013, day 2

Live from Malta today attending the EuroBSDCon 2013 conference. Today is the second day of tutorials, still overlapped by the second day of the FreeBSD devsummit and the only day of the NetBSD devsummit. OpenBSD Hallway conversations are powerful and, in my opinion, the best aspect of these conferences. I had the chance today to talk to Peter Hessler from OpenBSD. Only 15 to 20 minutes of discussion were necessary to learn a lot about how the OpenBSD project is run and to clear some of the misconceptions I had, which I don't know where I got from. One obvious example is that OpenBSD does support SMP and has in fact been doing so for a long time — except, of course, for the fact that the giant kernel lock is still being removed.

September 27, 2013 · Tags: <a href="/tags/conference">conference</a>, <a href="/tags/eurobsdcon">eurobsdcon</a>, <a href="/tags/freebsd">freebsd</a>, <a href="/tags/openbsd">openbsd</a>, <a href="/tags/pcbsd">pcbsd</a>
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