Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 01:33:02 -0700 From: Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school) Message-ID: <3B496C3E.F0C25D31@pitt.edu> References: <3B478570.67B193CB@pitt.edu> <p05100302b76e6fce91c0@[194.78.241.123]> <20010709080330.G80862@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010708212832.046de430@localhost>
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And they beat us by implementing Scheduler Activations first and they
also incorporated John Dyson's (actually FreeBSD's) pipes code. We are
all advancing, there's no doubt, but I still see good reasons for
choosing the commercial OS on these platforms.
I recall someone is Slashdot complained abut the lack of distributions
for the SPARC. I have no way to masure this but it's really difficult to
find commercial Linux distributions for non PCs although the PPC is
starting to gain interest.
Pedro.
Brett Glass wrote:
>
> At 08:44 PM 7/8/2001, Pedro F Giffuni wrote:
>
> >Admitedly, NetBSD and Linux offer interesting features for platforms
> >that are already dying, but I don't think it's a real option for new
> >equipment.
>
> NetBSD shows great promise for Itanium and Sledgehammer. See
>
> http://www.wasabisystems.com/news/pr20010622.html
>
> Also, NetBSD is apparently incorporating Jon Lemmon's
> excellent work on the Kqueue APIs (which Linux does not
> implement). See
>
> http://www.openmagazine.net/guestcolumn/01/01/24/239215.shtml
>
> This API is the most innovative solution to multiple event handling
> since the Amiga Exec....
>
> --Brett
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