Francois Zellinger wrote:
  A have never tried out SMP nor the AMD64 platform. I
am using FreeBSD,
 NetBSD and Slackware on this system. 
There'se been a lot of discussions regarding stability issues on FreeBSD
5.2 / 5.3. OTOH, the internet "press" was much more positive regarding
NetBSD.
François, as you know these 3 systems (Slackware included), how would
you situate them in comparison to each other?
-pu