Re: New dirty tricks in Red Hat 5.x

From: The Boss <usenet_at_No.Spam.Please.invalid>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 22:17:37 +0200
Message-ID: <4a15b6e3$0$19292$e4fe514c_at_dreader28.news.xs4all.nl>



Mladen Gogala wrote:
> Na Thu, 21 May 2009 05:51:28 +0000, Mladen Gogala napisao:
>
>> Na Wed, 20 May 2009 23:35:45 +0200, The Boss napisao:
>>
>>> Mladen Gogala wrote:
>>>> 1) CFS and ionice
>>> <...>
>>>> 2) VDSO (Virtual Dynamic Shared Object)
>>> <...>
>>>> 3) Blockdev
>>> <...>
>>>> 4) Readahead.
>>> <...>
>>>
>>> These are all kernel-related, so not specific to Red Hat? I seem to
>>> recall having seen at least CFS and VDSO in other distributions'
>>> documentation (SUSE).
>>
>> I only use Red Hat and CentOS. I was blissfully ignorant about other
>> distributions until yesterday, when I replaced F10 with Ubuntu. So
>> far, it's not that bad. And yes, most of those things are kernel
>> related.
>
> BTW, speaking about distros, I just fell in love:
> http://www.nexenta.org/os
>
> This is a Linux distribution with an OpenSolaris kernel. Can you
> imagine that? Dtrace and all? Solaris is miles ahead of Linux in
> terms of kernel usability and reliability.

I've never worked with Solaris, but that might change thanks to this company:
http://www.sinenomine.net/about/history

-- 
Jeroen 
Received on Thu May 21 2009 - 15:17:37 CDT

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