On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:07 PM, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a bit OT, but > i just had the pleasure of meeting and ex-sun employee, working > mostly on kernel stuff. i dont know how similar the opensolaris > and solaris kernels are, but he said the solaris kernel code is > a beauty to read, and simplicity and readibility are adhered > to fanatically... that reminds me another dev community :o) Sun learnt a lot of lessons when it tried to merge sparc and x86 code bases together around the solaris 2.4 time, iirc. That's why things like zfs are endian neutral. OpenBSD started in the multi cpu world to begin with. -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0&feature=related
