[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>well, for one, the hardware vendors know the intricacies of their gear and >can tune their flavor of Unix for it. this is exactly the goal of an OS: to provide an interface to the underlying hardware and maximize it in the process. There's always a tradeoff between maximum hardware efficiency and portability. Like running Solaris on an Intel architecture is a big joke, since the ix86 doen't maximize the full potential of Solaris. or Linux in a SunSPARC (though some say Linux beat Solaris in their own hardware on some critical points, though Linux still has miles to go before getting to the quality of commercial UNIX brands, though it's getting there when kernel 3.0 comes out from 2.5 - feeling ko yun ang lalabas...) Paolo Alexis Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _ 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]
