Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:52:17 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: stox@enteract.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux Message-ID: <371CA2B1.D2B495F5@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904192023350.12203-100000@m4.stox.sa.enteract.com>
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"Kenneth P. Stox" wrote:
>
> > > Well, I'm not so sure about that. What technology has Sun, IBM, or Intel
> > > agreed to to donate to Linux right now ? I know Sun has made Java open,
> > > but have they donated any technology directly to the O/S ?
> >
> > Sun gave them a StarFire to play with. Is that enough? How many multi-
> > million dollar machines do they need? ;^)
> >
> > IBM has sent several dozen workstations and a couple of large SMP
> > servers to their Linux PPC partner, somewhere in Florida. Motorola
> > has 3 engineers doing full-time support for Linux on their CPU boards
> > over in Computer Division.
> >
> > SGI is already dead, they just haven't bothered to fall over yet.
> > Their executive staff have been driving them into the ground for
> > years, so it's not surprising.
>
> When I said donating technology, I meant things like XFS ( although SGI
> has not stated that this is one of the technologies ). Is IBM going to
> donate JFS and the volume management software ?
I doubt it, but Sun has apparently given the Linux developers access
to Solaris code for StarFire booting. They want Linux to be able to
run on a partition on the StarFire, which can split sets of CPUs into
a processor partition and run multiple operating systems on the same
system. This would allow a StarFire to run both Solaris and Linux at
the same time.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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