Re: Debian and dual processors?

After takin' a swig o' grog, ray belched out this bit o' wisdom:

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:30:13 +0000, Pete wrote:

I am looking at buying a used dual xeon machine. Will Debian work with a
dual processor machine? What distribution might? Tks.

Nearly all *nix's will - all you need to do is load an SMP kernel -
usually one is included with the distro.

Debian will load the SMP kernel for you!

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Tux rox!
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