From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 08:45:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 916BC106568D for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:45:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from masoom.shaikh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f199.google.com (mail-px0-f199.google.com [209.85.216.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4F88FC19 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi37 with SMTP id 37so3666967pxi.9 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:45:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=T7pn4h5ZwfzmtYg0GMVP82cWCoGCwkZ3JI2zrLVYXWQ=; b=BK+yNVV6gB+DjL+0OOLf+dedEV1nFMfQE5e+7E9DLQu7hjqyxZ1VzTiEMF43HbUco+ cmZbg3U+D0GS8xezcVzGbnQUAXYnX8hhant3n7jBCWHhyI+ctceODzGj8mlXmaaHvJly h4wSe8SW72P07F7CVJ2hZTc2uCE3q4BrKs1Mw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=QiRMRmLAY3BHN3APWs2zocdbUHkcGG2KI0jhVvah8ZB7ICcHHALvLUYq7izegsn3ts 04QOUvSVGXkDqMu2tTG3mh+xIL1KydU6KJhGZzvUZGdztCP4sQOVKt8KHxIdGeRTvJvc mu4SdNBoMzP2Fb2SASbLEQZ611FUAOhIQyO4g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.115.103.3 with SMTP id f3mr1373562wam.226.1266482394971; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:39:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:09:54 +0530 Message-ID: From: Masoom Shaikh To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:45:51 -0000 here is excellant intoduction to NetBSD-5.0 http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html certain statements are very impressive in those slides like "Build any NetBSD platform from any POSIX environment" $ uname -s -m Linux i686 $ cd netbsd-src $ ./build.sh -m sparc64 release develop and test 32 bits apps on 64 bit env cc -m 32 does FreeBSD has those two features ? also can anyone comment about locking granularity in FreeBSD kernel