Re: Need ammo against BSD Fud

[James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>]

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, JF Martinez wrote:
> 
> > BSD people are writing tons of articles saying how superior BSD is
> > respective to Linux.  There is a danger they will impregnate
> > people with the idea: Linux=second rate system.
> 
> The BSD VM system _is_ better than the Linux one, but AFAIK
> that's about the only part where we lag in such a way that
> people can actually notice a difference.
> 
> I think it's time to stop the advocacy and start the design
> of a better Linux VM system. The first part would be a real
> zoned memory allocator. More in my next mail...

We need to worry about making a better kernel. I don't know
nothing about BSD VM svs linux  VM but I do know linux needs a more
uniform  resource manager to make module writing easier. Having things
like write_b  vary from platform to platform makes life a real nightmare
for module writers. Also thier is a real lack of docs on how to make
drivers portable to all platforms. Of course this will be tackled in
2.5.x. 




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