The complete comment is here....
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/07/05/0211257&cid=218
and makes very interesting reading.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anand Kumria
> Sent: Thursday, 6 July 2000 09:57
> To: James Morris
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Info on 'TUX'
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:05:43AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> > Sluggers,
> >
> > There's some interesting info on a new high performance web serving
> > package called TUX buried in a slashdot discussion at:
> >
> > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/05/0211257
> > (the article about the recent specweb pissing contest).
> >
> > I'm not sure what the url for a specific post there would be, but have a
> > look for a comment by Ingo Molnar with the subject 'more info about TUX
> > 1.0'. It looks kind of like an announcement that happened into the
> > discussion.
> >
> > It's partly kernel resident (like khttpd), is GPL'd and will
> apparently be
> > released soon. It looks like a major ass-kicking piece of software, and
> > demonstrate much of the scalability work that's been going into 2.4.
>
> >From the Slashdot forum (for those who couldn't find it) Ingo
> Molnar writes:
>
> "i'm the one who designed/wrote most of TUX, and here are some
> facts about it.
>
> 'TUX' comes from 'Threaded linUX webserver', and is a kernel-space HTTP
> subsystem. TUX was written by Red Hat and is based on the 2.4
> kernel series.
> TUX is under the GPL and will be released in a couple of weeks.
> TUX's main
> goal is to enable high-performance webserving on Linux, and while
> it's not as
> feature-full as Apache, TUX is a 'full fledged' HTTP/1.1
> webserver supporting
> HTTP/1.1 persistent (keepalive) connections, pipelining, CGI
> execution, logging,
> virtual hosting, various forms of modules, and many other
> webserver features.
> TUX modules can be user-space or kernel-space. "
>
> So it another great contribution by RedHat. Keen beans can find source at:
>
> <URL: http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/api-src/Dell-20000626.tar.gz>
>
> Thanks for pointing it out James,
> Regards,
> Anand
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