On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: .. > That's not shaping up to become such a good idea anymore. The current > kernel has 2,440,919 physical source lines of code as of Kernel 2.4.2, .. > Doesn't that > worry some people around here? The monolithic design is probably not > going to be best for high scalability and for distributed computing > environments.
I wouldn't be too worried. Solaris8 single-system image runs, and runs well, on a 128-way Sparc64 box, the Siemens-Fujitsu Kaiser. There's some truth to BillJ's assertion that "Linux doesn't scale as well as Solaris does." =) .. > It makes you wonder why BSD never seems to have achieved the level of > popularity Linux enjoys. Simple. jkh's ego. theo's ego. (and my does theo have an ego..) Simply put, true or not, the xBSD developers don't quite seem as democratic as the Linux kernel developer camp. Or there's a perceived lack of democracy. I mean, you can always say, here are all these ex-CSRG, ex-Berkeley folks (including the Two Men Who Fuck Men, i.e. Each Other) all doing their thing.. it's not hard to conjure up a "Berkeley UNIX inner cabala" of sorts. At least that's what I think, and it's an opinion that a lot of people share -- the perceived elitism of the xBSD developers made them less popular. -- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
