SMP and kernel

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:48:29 PDT 2004


Which distros do this?  It sounds like pure laziness on their part for not
supplying two kernels.

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:40:22 -0400 (EDT)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering why you're doing this in the first place.  Why not just run
> > a uniproc kernel?
>
> There are a few distros that deliver only SMP kernels. Our goal with a
> distro is to try and use it out-of-the-box, making changes only where
> needed. We use to do more customization in Unix, but have been trying a new
> approach in Linux. This also helps make our stuff 'distro agnostic', which
> we planed to be a good thing.
>
>

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