From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 08:01:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23979 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:01:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23952 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:01:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id RAA11000; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 17:00:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 17:00:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: Sascha Schumann cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD or LINUX??? - Which one should I choose? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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