> I have a dual and a quad processor machines.
>
> Would red linux 6.1 work on them ie would linux
> actually knows how to utilize the multiple processors?
Yes. In most cases it will even automatically detect you have a multiprocessor
machine and install an appropriate kernel.
> If it does, is it going to be "true parallelism"
> (if one processor fails, other processors can still
> handle the job") or is it going to be
> "master-slave"(if one processor fails, everything
> fails) ?
PC hardware doesn't support recovering from a CPU failure. All the processors
in Linux 2.2 are equals however.
Alan
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