Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-27 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:03:54AM -0400, Rick Hohensee wrote: > > > rtlinux by default > > > no SMP > > > SMP doesn't scale. If this fork comes, the smart maintainer > > > will take the non-SMP fork. > > > > Depends on platform and bus. From reports, it seems to scale ju

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Shawn Starr
Fork nothing, stop taking stupidity. The kernel SOURCES may be 26MB but that does NOT mean you have to use every driver! Shawn. On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote: > > > > Rick Hohensee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > 2.4.5 is 26 meg now. It's time to consider forking the kernel. Alan ha

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Rick Hohensee
> > Rick Hohensee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > 2.4.5 is 26 meg now. It's time to consider forking the kernel. Alan has > > already stuck his tippy-toe is that pool, and his toe is fine. > > Stop that nonsense. Alan Cox has _not_ forked anything, neither has Dave > Miller, or any of the arch mai

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Horst von Brand
Rick Hohensee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 2.4.5 is 26 meg now. It's time to consider forking the kernel. Alan has > already stuck his tippy-toe is that pool, and his toe is fine. Stop that nonsense. Alan Cox has _not_ forked anything, neither has Dave Miller, or any of the arch maintainers. Alan

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Jesse Pollard
Rick Hohensee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote: > > >2.4.5 is 26 meg now. It's time to consider forking the kernel. Alan has > > >already stuck his tippy-toe is that pool, and his toe is fine. > > > > > > forget POSIX > > > The standards that matter are

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Rok Papež
Hi! On Sunday 24 June 2001 16:50, Rob Landley wrote: > distant from ascii after the printer drivers get done with it. And that > text processing itself is, regrettably, moving to Unicode.) Bad standard is better than no standard. -- best regards, Rok Papež. - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Luigi Genoni
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote: > > > > > rtlinux by default > > > no SMP > > > SMP doesn't scale. If this fork comes, the smart maintainer > > > will take the non-SMP fork. > > > > Depends on platform and bus. From reports, it seems to scale just fine on > > n

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Ben Ford
Rick Hohensee wrote: >>desktops to worry about. Desktops are an application, not part of Linux at all >>It is becoming better for the administrator. As better desktops are developed, >>it is becoming for "user friendly". >> > >Thanks for replying civilly to something you clearly don't agree with.

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote: > 2.4.5 is 26 meg now. It's time to consider forking the kernel. Alan has > already stuck his tippy-toe is that pool, and his toe is fine. > For a client-use Linux kernel, I suggest, and will be and have been > persuing, features and non-features such a

RE: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Heusden, Folkert van
>> x86 only (and similar, e.g. Crusoe) > Again, Linux is the only system that CAN run on anything from PDA thorough > supercomputer clusters. What about NetBSD? :o) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More m

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-25 Thread Rick Hohensee
> > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote: > >2.4.5 is 26 meg now. It's time to consider forking the kernel. Alan has > >already stuck his tippy-toe is that pool, and his toe is fine. > > > > forget POSIX > > The standards that matter are de-facto standards. Linux is the > >

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-24 Thread Jesse Pollard
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote: >2.4.5 is 26 meg now. It's time to consider forking the kernel. Alan has >already stuck his tippy-toe is that pool, and his toe is fine. > >The "thou shalt not fork" commandment made sense at one point, when free >unix was a lost tribe wandering hungry in

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-24 Thread Rob Landley
On Sunday 24 June 2001 09:46, Luigi Genoni wrote: > > > no SMP > > > x86 only (and similar, e.g. Crusoe) > > Is this a joke? > I hope it is. > > Luigi Nah, I think it's an intentional troll. Either that or somebody who's So naieve they honestly think that having different "text mode" and "b

RE: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-24 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Luigi Genoni wrote: > > > no SMP > > > x86 only (and similar, e.g. Crusoe) > > > Is this a joke? > I hope it is. Must be. I mean, who wants "rtlinux by default" and a FORTH interpreter in the kernel ? ;) Either the guy's box got rooted and somebody sent an email in his

RE: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-24 Thread Luigi Genoni
> > no SMP > > x86 only (and similar, e.g. Crusoe) > Is this a joke? I hope it is. Luigi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please re

RE: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-24 Thread George Bonser
> YHBT. Evidently so. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

RE: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-24 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, George Bonser wrote: > > no SMP > > x86 only (and similar, e.g. Crusoe) > > Never YHBT. YHL. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/ma

RE: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-24 Thread George Bonser
> no SMP > x86 only (and similar, e.g. Crusoe) Never - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/l

Re: The Joy of Forking

2001-06-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Every man forks. Not every man really lives. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/