On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:19:43 +0200 Grozdan Nikolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2007 18:12, you wrote: > > On Saturday 23 June 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > > A few innovations that afaik first appeared the Linux kernel > > > - Making multiple hosts appear transparently as one IP address > > > - Futex fast hybrid locking > > > - Single pass checksum fragment and send fragments in reverse order > > > - Reiserfs - very innovative design, but innovation isn't neccessarily > > > success > > > - JFFS/JFFS2 - flash wear levelled file system avoiding all the problem > > > patents > > > - Loadable modules for a non-microkernel > > > > - ALSA framework and drivers > > - Direct Rendering Infrastructure DRI is based on SGI work and Mark Kilgard and the SGI folks definitely did the real visionary work in that area. > > - hotplugging > > > > hmm, wasn't loadable kernel modules first implemented in SunOS 4.x together > with the proc system ? Proc type stuff is a lot older than Linux or Unix AFAIK. Loadable modules ditto but the full load/unload/autoload stuff I've not seen pre-Linux. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/