RE: [MLUG] what is IBM's linux?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> I like IRIX much better than Linux for a vareity of reasons, not the
> least of which is that inst is a *much* better package management tool
> than rpm. There are other things, too, like a lot of the kernel
> internals that people who havent hacked the IRIX kernel might now know.
> I will say that IRIX is built a lot stronger on the inside than Linux.
> Linux seems to still be centered around small systems (until today :) ),
> whereas IRIX was built to scale from 1 to 1024 CPUs, mass quantities of
> peripherials, I/O, clustered filesystems, etc.

Linux has countless package management tools. How does IRIX's differ from
RPM? Could be there is already one similar to IRIX's and if not there
probably will be eventually. Package management is one of the oldest bits
of Linux but is still evolving nicely.

I don't understand what you mean by the kernel internals? Could you
explain in more detail?

I don't know if I can see a point in supporting massive numbers of
processors in a single system. Server clusters seem to me to be more
scalable, cleaner to support, and the way things are headed. They seem to
be working on that portion of Linux anyway and I know you can configure it
for big server support but I really don't see it being all that important.
I'd say work towards embedded devices is probably more forward looking.
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