Subject: Re: Adrian must be happy...
From: wesley.craig@umich.edu
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 09:47:37 EDT
> From: "Temple, Matthew H." <Matthew_Temple@dfci.harvard.edu>
> Though I'm sure Sun would be very happy with this claim,
> others such as Celera Genomics seem to think that TruUnix scales
> pretty well. (Good enough to process the entire first pass of
> the Human Genome project.) Let's not turn this group into a Sun
> propaganda mill. After all, Netatalk is one of the mainstays
> of the GPL world and it's certainly true that if Sun REALLY
> ruled the world, this free and excellent program would never
> have been born in its current form. Also, Linux is still just
> a baby, so we'll see how things scale as it grows up. :-)
Um, I'm hardly chewing out Sun propoganda. While I *did* do the
Solaris port of netatalk (with help from Sun, BTW), I *also* worked
pretty hard on the Linux, FreeBSD, and, um, let's see, oh right, every
OS that it runs on.
Also, I think it's misleading to claim that netatalk is a mainstay for
the GPL world, since it is not covered by the GPL.
netatalk was first written for AOS, a port of BSD 4.3 for the IBM RT,
predecessor of both AIX and RIOS. Then it was ported to a vax running
BSD Tahoe, the version between 4.3 and 4.4. After that, SunOS 4. I'd
have to look at the archives after that, since we added several OS's
all around the same time.
I agree, tho, with your last point. Maybe someday the Linux kernel
team will care about scaling.
:wes
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