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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!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ns.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!vyzynz!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.sojourn.com!news.eecs.umich.edu!caen!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!maui.cc.odu.edu!news From: Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SUN moving away from BSD to System V Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:27:56 -0400 (EDT) Organization: Old Dominion University Lines: 32 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.960423092209.4388A-100000@tulip.cs.odu.edu> References: <4lce4k$flh@news.umbc.edu> <4lf01d$ar@dyson.iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tulip.cs.odu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4lf01d$ar@dyson.iquest.net> On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, John S. Dyson wrote: > Also, for neatness of the kernel (I's dotted and T's crossed) out of FreeBSD > or Linux, NetBSD probably has the edge :-). For performance under load > FreeBSD has the edge (given the same generations of code.) For snappy > interactive performance (mostly due to async metadata), but some loading > anomolies, Linux is pretty good. Well, I work with and on Solaris boxes...The kernel is almost totally modular. I has the basic boot code, and from there, it just loads the modules it needs for whatever hardware is present (you must give boot -r option when changing out hardware..oooh, aaaah...). This of course is not a real option on PC's due to the incredibly stupid hardware design implemented on PC architecture. > I think that the reason that Sun is going to the SV base, is that it is finally > getting to be good enough. If SVR4 was originally done well, it would have > been SUPER... The original SVR4's looked (internally) like a research project > on steroids -- scarier than the stuff in /usr/src/linux in most places, but at > least they used manifest constants most of the time instead of > "magic numbers..." I haven't seen 4.2 or Solaris 2.5, so my expertise is very > limited there. On low end boxes, SunOS 4.1.x will smoke Solaris...however, if you can give Solaris the overhead it wants, it beats SunOS to a pulp...the Multithreading takes some overhead...but it's worth it...seems to be the os/2 equiv...'you want it to run on what?'... Jamie I have my finger on the pulse of the planet.