Subject: Re: Just seen on the Linux/SPARC mailing lists.
To: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/17/1997 00:18:08
Miguel de Icaza said:
>This is full 64-bit port, fine grain locking SMP kernel on Ultra
>X000 Enterprise systems.
>
>Boy, David Miller is coding fast.
>From: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
>That should have everything one would need to install UltraPenguin-1.0
>on high end Enterprise systems. Much thanks to those who helped me
>via the test images I've been putting up.
I have to wonder why anyone would put Linux on a $100000+ Sun ULTRA
system. Especially since Linux isn't actually SMP. And Sun wouldn't
support the combination...
What I like most about NetBSD is the slow careful development path that
is being taken to ensure a stable, useable, modern BSD operating system.
I recently started a new job. One of the machines in my office is a P166
PC loaded with Slackware from CDROM. I had trouble building common apps
on it such as elm. It was apparently Linux 2.0.0.
And I certainly don't want an OS named after a oily, arctic bird that
smells like dead fish. :-)
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