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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: LINUX, Unix, and opportunity for change
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 17:33:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.154505.8927@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> mleech@bnr.ca (Marcus Leech) writes:
- >Unix provides an extremely rich programming environment, but it has
- ...
- >Parameterization of system modules, including the kernel and critical
-
- There are two schools of thought on this.
- Please allow me to...
- And please don't make me ...
-
- The VMS tunable kernel is necessary because Digital is not giving out
- source. Linux comes with source so you are free to tune the source
- to your hearts content. If want to avoid recompiles, you can use
- lilo to pass in parameters. For run time tuning, you can hook into
- the ioctl calls, to modify kernel parameters.
-
- Having the source is far superiour because it is less indirect, and
- indirection always exacts a price, in terms of simplicity, flexibility
- and power.
-
- >There needs to be a consistent and flexible accounting mechanism. Such a
-
- Ditto what someone else said (mkj?). This is overhead few will want.
- If it isn't to extensive, we might consider adding it to the kernel
- as a conditional compile.
-
- >More of the system should use the syslog() mechanisms, and there should be
-
- Syslog (which I have started to add to SLS) is not in the kernel. It
- is supported or not, by the system utilities login, etc. Note, things
- like xlock, and xdm and ftpd need source modifications, to participate.
-
- >I'd like to make it clear that I'm as rabid a Unix fanatic as the next guy,
-
- Glad to hear it. But there are probably more differences than similarities
- between VMS and Linux (I work supporting products on a 6*6000 VAX cluster).
- Some of these differences are more than just philosophy. VMS is single
- sourced, and tightly controlled. Linux is great :-).
-
- Peter
- pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
-