Re: Linux Developers, Start Your Copiers!

From: Aquila Deus (aquila_deus_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 06/15/05 

Date: 15 Jun 2005 09:57:38 -0700

Mike Cox wrote:
> If there was any doubt as to which Operating System is superiour, it has
> just been vanquished! Within a day of the release of the OpenSolaris
> source code, Linux kernel developers began to steal concepts and ideas
> from it.
>
> There is a patch right now on KLM borrowed (ie. stolen) from OpenSolaris
> that makes linux more efficient! Wow that was quick! But why not just
> move to the superiour offering that is OpenSolaris? It'll take a long
> time and many failed tries to get Linux as good as OpenSolaris even if
> they have the source to liberally borrow from. During that time
> OpenSolaris will just get even better.
>
> The reason Solaris and OpenSolaris are so much better are for the
> following two reasons:
>
> 1. OpenSolaris/Solaris is engineered by engineers and Linux is hacked
> together by hackers. Engineers architect a system for robustness and
> stability by having design documentation and reference implementations.
> They also have the 25 years of kernel engineering experience and
> extensive university training.
>
> Linux hackers see a concept they like and try to fudge it in to their
> kernel in a kludgy manner. Look at how they botched the SCSI commands in
> the 2.6 kernel that broke cdrecord (and they did it without advanced
> notice!).
>
> 2. Solaris has been under professional development for a much longer
> time than Linux. It runs the world's biggest enterprises, banks,
> hospitals and governments. Linux was a hobby project until 2001 when IBM
> put engineers on a hacked together kernel. Even professional engineers
> cannot improve something based on an imperfect design philosophy. You
> will be hard pressed to turn a ford pinto into a Ferrari even with the
> best engineers.
>
>
> Here is a link to the copying of the superiour OpenSolaris concepts into
> linux:
>
> "The current Linux implementation loads the timeout immediately, even if
> the operation doesn't block. As explained in the OpenSolaris sources,
> this is not needed. The attached patch changes the Linux code."
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/14/136

If it cannot even install, who care whether it's good or bad?

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