Re: Desktop Kernel Stuff
- From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
- To: Jim Gettys hp com
- Cc: danw ximian com (Dan Winship), sander vesik sun com (Sander Vesik), Murray Cumming Comneon com, jdub perkypants org, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: Desktop Kernel Stuff
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:32:52 -0400 (EDT)
> Commerical UNIX's now have to worry about being compatible with Linux,
> rather than the other way around. And most facilities we would want
> are usefull for other things, in any case.
>
> So I no longer believe that getting kernel changes for the desktop
> is a futile exercise anymore, the way it was a few years ago.
It isnt the kernel changes that are the big problem. Linux and *BSD will
adopt sane changes and even work together on them sometimes. I'm sure
the Sun guys are taking notes too.
The problem is legacy infrastructure - NFS has no EA's for example or
file notifications
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