[rescue] Linux help (was ZX coolness)

[Dave McGuire]

   JOSH.  I was getting on your shit for using the non-word "distro".

   And the LANL people are messing with Linux for the same reason IBM, 
Sun, and all the other big shops are...because it's getting press.  The 
LANL people will have a much better shot at getting grant money for 
"synergizing with a linux solution" than they would a solid, less 
marketing-oriented operatin system.

     -Dave

On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 01:45 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>>> The next linux distro I try is going to be Simply GNUstep on a P166
>>> that
>>> I have lieing around.
>>
>>   Distro?  DISTRO!?
>>
>>   You really ARE turning into a Linux weenie, Josh.
>
> Simply GNUstep isn't just a linux distro.  It is an attempt to 
> resurrect
> Nextstep with the linux kernel instead of the original mach kernel.
> Yes, it might be a bit misguided to be using the linux kernel versus 
> the
> netbsd kernel or hurd kernel (which would still have mach), but at 
> least
> they are trying something cool.
>
> How many other linux distros have you seen me mention wanting to try?  
> I
> think I once mentioned wanting to try one that was trying to be a small
> talk OS (squeak running on the frame buffer console started on bootup 
> to
> a default user.  All command line access occuring through a terminal
> emulator written in squeak, etc).  But it's not like you've seen me
> talking about wanting to have a seperate redhat machine, a seperate
> slackware machine, etc.  I just realize that on the desktop, linux has
> the best hardware support, and additionally, though we might not like
> that it is linux instead of NetBSD, there are some cool projects going
> on.
>
> For instance, did you hear about the new LANL super computer going in?
> They are using diskless linuxbios machines that pull their filesystems
> over the network.  They also have added SSI support, and they have 
> added
> namespace support.  I think this is darn cool stuff, even if I bet
> NetBSD would be better[0].  Do any of the free BSDs have such
> capabilities?
>
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
>
> [0] They are trying to deal with the latency and bandwidth problems 
> that
> occur for tasks that don't split up over MPI like systems over 100mbit
> ethernet well.  And it seem to me that the best place to start is with
> the best possible TCP/IP stack (i.e. the BSD one), then add all the
> fancy SSI and namespace stuff, and the fancy ultra highspeed/low 
> latency
> networking gear.
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