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Caldera's Almost-Linux Skips The Linux Kernel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-how-much-would-you-pay dept.

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.

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  1. The kernelset 2.4 is not that presentable... by zander · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The 2.4.9 kernel did not even compile for me! (ntfs) Why are linus and friends not doing this non-stable stuff in a 2.5 set of kernels?

    NFS still does not work correctly and heaps of memory problems have been bugging the series until 2.4.5

    Release early, releas often is good, but please state when you have a STABLE version so distros can use that. It seems to me that the 2.4 series is just one stumble after another..

    Yeah, might be flamebait, but he, it had to be said!

  2. test by CaptTofu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    test

  3. Re:test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Moderate this up.

    Someone from /. is actually testing code. Moderate this up at once.