Comments on: MBM: Sick of the Solaris FUD train on Linux scalability? DaveM has some thoughts… http://www.michaeldolan.com/937 Linux, Law, Open Source, and a Comedy of Errors Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: vorker http://www.michaeldolan.com/937/comment-page-1#comment-44613 vorker Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:22:45 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/937#comment-44613 @Michael Fremlins Stop playing in straw man. There are many things NEW in Linux like RCU, dozens of improvements in many areas like memory fragmentation avoidance, security models etc. Just look at lwf page and find out. @Michael Fremlins

Stop playing in straw man. There are many things NEW in Linux like RCU, dozens of improvements in many areas like memory fragmentation avoidance, security models etc. Just look at lwf page and find out.

]]> By: Michael Fremlins http://www.michaeldolan.com/937/comment-page-1#comment-31935 Michael Fremlins Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:09:06 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/937#comment-31935 You still haven't answered my question. What has Linux done which is NEW? Virtualisation has been done before. Running on differrent architectures has been done before. Crikey, all this existed before Linux even existed. So what has Linux done which is NEW? Name something that has not been done before elsewhere and copied onto the Linux stack. Something that Linux has "invented" for want of a better word. You still haven’t answered my question. What has Linux done which is NEW? Virtualisation has been done before. Running on differrent architectures has been done before. Crikey, all this existed before Linux even existed.

So what has Linux done which is NEW? Name something that has not been done before elsewhere and copied onto the Linux stack. Something that Linux has “invented” for want of a better word.

]]> By: md http://www.michaeldolan.com/937/comment-page-1#comment-29078 md Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:20:36 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/937#comment-29078 Let's start with virtualization where Linux has lead all OSs except for zOS. Then think about Linux being architected to run on everything from nearly all supercomputers to servers laptops mobile phones and embedded devices. Then also consider it supports more processor architectures and devices than any OS even aspires to. Now Linux even leads in security models that offer flexibility and even can bring a real time kernel to a commodity OS. Now think of all the limitations in Unix and I think it's quite clear. Let’s start with virtualization where Linux has lead all OSs except for zOS. Then think about Linux being architected to run on everything from nearly all supercomputers to servers laptops mobile phones and embedded devices. Then also consider it supports more processor architectures and devices than any OS even aspires to. Now Linux even leads in security models that offer flexibility and even can bring a real time kernel to a commodity OS. Now think of all the limitations in Unix and I think it’s quite clear.

]]> By: Michael Fremlins http://www.michaeldolan.com/937/comment-page-1#comment-29070 Michael Fremlins Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:01:54 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/937#comment-29070 I think Linux is very overrated. What has it done which is truly new? It copies (in function) UNIX. It copies (in function) Windows. What has it actually done which is new and innovative? I think Linux is very overrated. What has it done which is truly new? It copies (in function) UNIX. It copies (in function) Windows. What has it actually done which is new and innovative?

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