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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.deltanet.com!usenet From: "Thumper!" <thumper@vfr.interceptor.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 23:50:44 -0700 Organization: Interceptor Systems Lines: 24 Message-ID: <31831544.7E85@vfr.interceptor.com> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <yfgbuktfn1w.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <4l89ov$g5i@river.biddeford.com> <4lr9al$jea@felix.cc.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: valkyrie.interceptor.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22415 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:855 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3535 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3393 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18212 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47221 Joshy wrote: > Free Unix has these features > > A fast filesystem > A flat memory model with a good virtual memory system > true 32bit multitasking > fantastic networking support > lots of development utilites > a completely crash proof kernel > a future on SMP motherboards Some things it doesn't have journaled/logged file system built-in RAID support clustering support (or an upgrade path to) legacy network (such as VINES) support Steve -- Thumper! Leporidae Extraordinhare thumper@vfr.interceptor.com http://www.interceptor.com/~thumper "Life is to achieve the impossible"