Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
On Saturday 23 June 2007 20:54, you wrote: > Grozdan Nikolov wrote: > > On Saturday 23 June 2007 19:53, you wrote: > >> On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 14:17 +0200, Grozdan Nikolov wrote: > >> [...] > >> > >>> Please CC me as I'm not subscribe to this m

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
On Saturday 23 June 2007 21:18, you wrote: > There's a lot in Linux that was true innnovation: > > Alan Cox's Networking Architecture. > VFS Architecture (best one out there -- even better than M$'s) > Scheduler Design. > > Jeff Thanks Jeff, so from reading all the responses here I can conclude

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
> > then what is this? Provocation is _standard_ troll tactics. > > Why don't you try being innovative yourself? Because I've seen many times how people outside the kernel community get ignored or even labled as trolls when asking something, so I thought that provocation in this case could be

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
On Saturday 23 June 2007 19:53, you wrote: > On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 14:17 +0200, Grozdan Nikolov wrote: > [...] > > > Please CC me as I'm not subscribe to this mailing list, > > Perhaps you should change that and find most answers for yourself. > > > Thanks! > >

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
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

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
On Saturday 23 June 2007 16:43, you wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:17:15 +0200 > > Grozdan Nikolov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello gentlemen and ladies. > > > > As a Linux user for many years now (regulars user, not a programmer), I > > want > >

How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
Hello gentlemen and ladies. As a Linux user for many years now (regulars user, not a programmer), I want to congratulated you all for the great work you all have done in making Linux widely supported and compatible with a lot of hardware. Recently, I was on a search to see how the Linux kernel

How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
Hello gentlemen and ladies. As a Linux user for many years now (regulars user, not a programmer), I want to congratulated you all for the great work you all have done in making Linux widely supported and compatible with a lot of hardware. Recently, I was on a search to see how the Linux kernel

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
On Saturday 23 June 2007 16:43, you wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:17:15 +0200 Grozdan Nikolov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello gentlemen and ladies. As a Linux user for many years now (regulars user, not a programmer), I want Please do not feed the trolls, thank you heh, I'm

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
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

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
On Saturday 23 June 2007 19:53, you wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 14:17 +0200, Grozdan Nikolov wrote: [...] Please CC me as I'm not subscribe to this mailing list, Perhaps you should change that and find most answers for yourself. Thanks! Thanks! Bernd Perhaps you should change

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
then what is this? Provocation is _standard_ troll tactics. Why don't you try being innovative yourself? Because I've seen many times how people outside the kernel community get ignored or even labled as trolls when asking something, so I thought that provocation in this case could be

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
On Saturday 23 June 2007 21:18, you wrote: There's a lot in Linux that was true innnovation: Alan Cox's Networking Architecture. VFS Architecture (best one out there -- even better than M$'s) Scheduler Design. Jeff Thanks Jeff, so from reading all the responses here I can conclude that

Re: How innovative is Linux?

2007-06-23 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
On Saturday 23 June 2007 20:54, you wrote: Grozdan Nikolov wrote: On Saturday 23 June 2007 19:53, you wrote: On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 14:17 +0200, Grozdan Nikolov wrote: [...] Please CC me as I'm not subscribe to this mailing list, Perhaps you should change that and find most answers

imm module issues

2007-03-10 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
Hi, I've compiled the 2.6.20.2 kernel today (I took the SuSE HEAD kernel instead of the vanilla one) and I'm having issues with the "imm" module. I still use a ZIP drive here for small backups and the "imm" module worked flawless on kernel 2.6.18.8 but with kernel 2.6.20.2 I get error messages

imm module issues

2007-03-10 Thread Grozdan Nikolov
Hi, I've compiled the 2.6.20.2 kernel today (I took the SuSE HEAD kernel instead of the vanilla one) and I'm having issues with the imm module. I still use a ZIP drive here for small backups and the imm module worked flawless on kernel 2.6.18.8 but with kernel 2.6.20.2 I get error messages