Very good news, indeed.
>}Guys talk about NT supporting SMP on upto 4 processors and
>enterprise
>}version upto 8 processors. What is Linux's limit of SMP, if
>any? NT runs
>}on Intel, MIPS, Alpha and PowerPC. Linux runs on Intel, Alpha
>and Sparc.
>
Sorry, NT support is redicing as "peau de chagrin". As NT bugs
spread around, and non really portable code, it's very difficult
to maintain.
>There's quite a nice set of libraries that give user programs a
>posix
>interface to what they think is a unix system under NT. From
>what I've
>heard gcc, emacs, xv and several other common applications work
>under it.
>
Tried those. None is quite satisfactory. It's pseudo-POSIX, in
the same way as NT is pseudo-real-multitask.
Maybe this sounds anti-$sostf. It's not, as I developp with NT
as well as Linux. NT kernel sounds as a bunch of patches sticked
together to me.
There is no real logic there.
About SMP support, I could try an Apricot 4 Pentieum Pro Server.
Runs pretty well under Linux 2.1.54
Friendly
Jean-Claude
--- Jean-Claude Richard email: jclaude@mandalux.com Mandala Conseil admin@mandalux.com 29 Rue Lambert F75018 - Paris - France