Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 17:00:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: Sascha Schumann <sas@www.schell.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD or LINUX??? - Which one should I choose? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980728165024.10956C-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980728124826.1777E-100000@www.schell.de>
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Sascha Schumann wrote: > Nope. You need different schedulers for different purposes. The only > uniformity you will see in Linux is its plurality. See man > sched_setscheduler for more info (or dl the rt-tools from sunsite). Thanks for the hint - I'll take a close look ... > > > > * FreeBSD evolved from the BSD branch of UNIX and thus is a UNIX > > > > derivative. Linux started from Tanenbaum's Minix and is a > > > > reimplementation of the UNIX interface. > > > > > > Linux DID NOT start from Minix. Linux was complety written from scratch. > > > You should read the comp.os.minix newsgroup archiv where Tanenbaum and > > > Linus started their first argument... > > > > I did not want to say that Linux contains Minix code - I don't know. > > But as far as I know Linus T startet the development of Linux on an Minix > > system. > > Sorry for becoming nervous. I also tend to believe that if you reimplement > something, you will avoid previously done mistakes. That's learning. If > you don't want to become incompatible to the rest of the world, you choose > a commonly accepted interface - that's why it became so popular among > students and researchers around the world. Let's hope FreeBSD *and* Linux will continuously become better and always be alive in the years to come. We need alternatives especially to that commercial OS which is a great threat to the whole UNIX world - I'm sure you'll agree! Konrad Heuer // Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH // Goettingen (GWDG), Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany // // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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