From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: Chad Brown To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <3aaafc130909220717j55bc4f4br7d63e75c5f3578d5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:55:41 -0700 References: <13426df10909210922k6dec156ax1051cfe28a00b463@mail.gmail.com> <4AB7BACC.2000004@0x6a.com> <72B06B41-1471-4DA1-B225-E0FD86B56A56@gmail.com> <3e1162e60909211232j48d15b5du2b471500518ecb4@mail.gmail.com> <1D279178-C279-499C-AB77-BD328672B2A3@gmail.com> <14ec7b180909211812m8d29529u92fc2c4bbd05cba5@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130909220717j55bc4f4br7d63e75c5f3578d5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon Topicbox-Message-UUID: 75aada7c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:17 AM, J.R. Mauro wrote: > Another thing they won't consider is having separate versions for > high-end servers and PCs. I don't understand why Torvalds thinks Linux > has to be all things to all people. Back when I cared about linux for servers (not high-end hardware, but large numbers of easily repalceable dedicated servers), our system was based on a `server-leaning' kernel from one of the public forks (originally the `-ac' series, from Alan Cox, but we switched to someone else's kernel fork at some point). I don't know what things are like since the millennium, but from 1998 until about 2000 there were both server-focused kernel trees and well- known kernel forks of `linux', and that doesn't include the wider- ranging stuff like RTLinux or Mosix (to pick two). *Chad