On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:17 AM, J.R. Mauro wrote:
Another thing they won't consider is having separate versions for high-end servers and PCs. I don't understand why Torvalds thinks Linux has to be all things to all people.
Back when I cared about linux for servers (not high-end hardware, but large numbers of easily repalceable dedicated servers), our system was based on a `server-leaning' kernel from one of the public forks (originally the `-ac' series, from Alan Cox, but we switched to someone else's kernel fork at some point).
I don't know what things are like since the millennium, but from 1998 until about 2000 there were both server-focused kernel trees and well- known kernel forks of `linux', and that doesn't include the wider- ranging stuff like RTLinux or Mosix (to pick two).
*Chad
