Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be fast and safe

Re:Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be ... by pjmlp on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:16PM (#17545207)

The fact is that the Linux kernel without the APIs copied from POSIX/UNIX and the userspace copied from UNIX is useless on the server space.

Of course we can play semantic games about the use of UNIX word, and GNU/Linux not sharing any code from either BSD or AT&T linage, it doesn't make it any less UNIX.

Had Linux not copied UNIX, and provided a playground for UNIX vendors kind of outsource their development costs, it would have turned out to yet another hobby OS.

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Re:Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be ... by vetinari on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:26PM (#17545707)

NT had POSIX subsystem too.

What Linux (and NT POSIX to certain degree) allowed, was to move the existing investment in software from hodge-podge of mutually incompatible, but expensive UNIX systems, to somewhere else.

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Re:Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be ... by pjmlp on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:33AM (#17547348)

NT isn't a copy of UNIX, just because it had support for the first edition of POSIX, it goes beyond than that.

Starting by wanting to copy Minix, an educational OS that copied UNIX, getting the GNU tools on board (which goal was to copy UNIX), kernel architecture, device drivers subsystems, userland, culture, ....

My old stack of Linux Journal editions at home are pretty clear what the ongoing story was.

If NT was a copy of anything, it was VMS given Dave Cutler's contribution to its design.

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