From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 8 20:37:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A468937B403; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 20:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA11899; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 21:37:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010708212832.046de430@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 21:37:19 -0600 To: Pedro F Giffuni , Greg Lehey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school) Cc: Brad Knowles , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3B491A9E.D5392F7C@pitt.edu> References: <3B478570.67B193CB@pitt.edu> <20010709080330.G80862@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message