Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great
by otabdeveloper4 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @04:38PM
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Everything "has been done before" in computing. The difference is a matter of degree and attention to detail.
And your comment about it having been a thing on mainframes underscores my point.
The server story for Linux is evolving (and maturing) greatly, and very quickly. The Linux of today is not at all like the Linux from 2010. To say that Linux is stuck in some sort of legacy UNIX quagmire is just silly.
So what ideas are actually new, introduced by Linux crowd, instead of copied from either older UNIXes or mainframes?
How about recvmmsg? I never saw that before Linux, and haven't been able to find a reference to anything similar on say AIX or Solaris.
Yes really. I wrote recvmmsg. You linked to recvmsg. They are not the same thing.
I never have seen a Bitrot resistant filesystem on Linux before NILFS.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great
by otabdeveloper4 on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:24AM
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Did you read my comment? There are no "new" ideas in computing. Everything has already been invented in the 1960's. It's the finesse of execution that matters, not ideas.
I did and you are wrong, there are plenty of ideas to bring to the market, when one doesn't constrain themselves to copy mainframes and big iron UNIXes, and catching up with whatever Apple, Google and Microsoft do on UI/UX.
>It's the finesse of execution that matters, not ideas.
That's a crime to say "finesse" and "systemd" in the same discussion.
SystemD is like Solaris service manager, but far worse.
And, on cgroups, I think AIX has something like that but much, much, MUCH better.
It’s even worse. Systemd, dbus and journald are basically service manager, DCOM and Event Log from windows, but worse!
It’s not the wrong type of solution but systemd is somewhat stinky compared to what we could have had.
D-BUS ideas actually trace back to ToolTalk on Solaris.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great
by mixmastamyk on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:14PM
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What made Solaris sm better? Curious as I never used that one.
It is called LPAR.
It's called WPAR. LPARs are hypervisor level partitioning.
You're right, I stand corrected.
Re:Little Things That Made Amiga Great
by otabdeveloper4 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @04:39PM
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Systemd does a lot more than just manage services. The underlying architecture is a generic resource and dependency management system.
cgroups has been a thing on mainframes for decades.