Caldera's Almost-Linux Skips The Linux Kernel

Cassivs points to this UnixReview article, which says "Caldera has released Open UNIX 8, which includes a complete GNU/Linux distribution, except that it runs on the SVR5 kernel, acquired from SCO. It uses the same packages as Caldera's OpenLinux 3.1. It should scale much better, and provides a commercial UNIX kernel with the ability to natively develop GNU/Linux applications." It sounds like a non-Linux kernel has advantages on certain hardware, even running exactly the same software otherwise -- I wonder how long that will be true. Caldera has talked about this product, with it's Linux Kernel Personality, for a long time, and this is an informative review for anyone following it.

Comments

And BSD just keeps chugging along

[jailbrekr2]

Anyone familiar with the phrase 'divide and conquer'? Thats what happening right now. Fragment the market. Spit out many *NIX variants that are different. Is this good? In the short term, perhaps. But it is this fragmentation that nearly killed *NIX 15 years ago.

Oh well. Another *NIX variant, this time, its a Linux distribution with a SCO kernel. Cute. Just don't touch FreeBSD.

Re:The kernelset 2.4 is not that presentable...

[SuiteSisterMary]

As I've said before having lot of people using code in NOT real QA testing.

Yes yes YES! This is why I refuse to use Linux for anything important. Too many Linux developers have an 'if it compiles, it's finished' mentality that scares me.