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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.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!neonlights.uoregon.edu!news.jsums.edu!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!nntp.primenet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.idt.net!news.ios.com!usenet From: Bryan Seigneur <freds@gramercy.ios.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: Thu, 02 May 1996 00:50:01 -0400 Organization: SONETECH, Inc. Lines: 59 Message-ID: <31883EF9.5DD018E@gramercy.ios.com> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <yfgbuktfn1w.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <4l89ov$g5i@river.biddeford.com> <4lr9al$jea@felix.cc.gatech.edu> <31831544.7E85@vfr.interceptor.com> <31850B71.4602E7A6@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-49.ts-4.dc.idt.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; Linux 1.3.20 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22773 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:896 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3604 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3460 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18533 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47681 Terry Lambert wrote: > > Thumper! wrote: > ] 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 > > Berkeley LFS > > ] built-in RAID support > > BSD CCD (mirroring and striping with spindle sync); not full > RAID 5, but on an idiot would do ECC and hamming codes in > software and expect reasonable preformance. A Software fault > tolerance soloution for legacy hardware? Yes. A good idea? No. Yes, RAID support will continue to grow as people want it. > ] clustering support (or an upgrade path to) > > The Sarnoff center clusterning code, publically available; there > is alod an implementation of distributed shared memory using a > maodified NFS with a cache choherency protocol. Matt Welsh has a bunch of pointers to Linux clustering projects at (for the fifth time, now) http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/mdw/hpc/hpc.html > ] legacy network (such as VINES) support > > Well, you got me there. > > Windows95 and WindowsNT are in the same, boat however: funny > enough, people who run old software aren't buying your new > software and so are not giving you money. I wonder why they > aren't being supported? > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. Bryan -- Y W8 4MS? LNX4FREE!