From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 8 22:31: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351C537B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 22:30:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1250"@[136.142.21.254]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K5PJSGVJSE0039UJ@mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 01:30:56 EST Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 01:33:02 -0700 From: Pedro F Giffuni Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school) To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3B496C3E.F0C25D31@pitt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <3B478570.67B193CB@pitt.edu> <20010709080330.G80862@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010708212832.046de430@localhost> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message