I'm tempted to also do my own license just to get out of GNU. My license would be called NGNU as-in Not GNU. It would have about the same restrictions as GNU but would not be under Stallman. I have a lot of respect for what RMS has done, but I think he pushes things a bit too far. GNU/Linux is a good example. He (and the FSF) are always trying to take all the credit, rather than the developer(s) of the software. Linux for me will always be Linux. The license may be GPL, but that shouldn't force me to call my software GNU XYZ.
I guess you havn't played around with any servers then? Many of the large servers use RAID with special SCA connectors. These servers are designed such that you can easily remove a hard drive and replace it while the server is running.
I have done this on numerous occasions. It was pretty cool watching the RAID system rebuild a drive after replacing it without having any down time.
I think IDE RAID environments are now available, and if not they soon will be.
This is the same company that stole graphics from my employer's web site for there AcceleRouter product. Granted, my employer wanted to look into switching to Linux from another embedded OS, unfortunately Linux is just too resource intensive for our box. As far as stacks go, BSD and Linux stacks have their strengths. One thing I would like to see in the Linux TCP/IP stack is the ability to perform zero-copy transmits and support hardware TCP/UDP checksum calculation. What also would be useful would be the ability to blast data out of the disk cache without copying. Unfortunately it will take some work to adjust Linux's stack architecture and all of the network drivers.
Linux has a nice TCP/IP stack, but it's not as feature-rich as BSDs. I.E. no T/TCP or RSVP (last I checked).
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I'm tempted to also do my own license just to get out of GNU. My license would be called NGNU as-in Not GNU. It would have about the same restrictions as GNU but would not be under Stallman. I have a lot of respect for what RMS has done, but I think he pushes things a bit too far. GNU/Linux is a good example. He (and the FSF) are always trying to take all the credit, rather than the developer(s) of the software. Linux for me will always be Linux. The license may be GPL, but that shouldn't force me to call my software GNU XYZ.
I guess you havn't played around with any servers then? Many of the large servers use RAID with special SCA connectors. These servers are designed such that you can easily remove a hard drive and replace it while the server is running.
I have done this on numerous occasions. It was pretty cool watching the RAID system rebuild a drive after replacing it without having any down time.
I think IDE RAID environments are now available, and if not they soon will be.
This is the same company that stole graphics from my employer's web site for there AcceleRouter product. Granted, my employer wanted to look into switching to Linux from another embedded OS, unfortunately Linux is just too resource intensive for our box. As far as stacks go, BSD and Linux stacks have their strengths. One thing I would like to see in the Linux TCP/IP stack is the ability to perform zero-copy transmits and support hardware TCP/UDP checksum calculation. What also would be useful would be the ability to blast data out of the disk cache without copying. Unfortunately it will take some work to adjust Linux's stack architecture and all of the network drivers.
Linux has a nice TCP/IP stack, but it's not as feature-rich as BSDs. I.E. no T/TCP or RSVP (last I checked).