Number one really does not matter as much as you may think. With up to 4 processors and 32 Gb of memrory per board and Solaris's processor affinity, you don't need to go on the backplane much. Primarily I/O which is still slow compared to memory access speeds and is limited by the PCI buses. For those that do not know, processor affinity in Solaris is where the OS keeps the processes running on a processor on the memory local to that processor. With the dual core Sparc IV chips you can have 8 processors per board, though still limited to 32 Gb of memory.
You said - The GPL has been THE reference license since probably before you were born (tongue in cheek).
And I would say BS. I would argue that the GPL has only become the force that it is since Linux has become popular. For example, back when the Amiga was popular, everything free either came out with the BSD license or was placed in the public domain. There was an increcdible amount of software licensed this way. Remember the Fred Fish collection?
While the GNU tool chain was starting to become available, let us not forget that there was a lot of freely available software already, along with the sharing culture. Sure for a while it sort of submerged with the emphasis on Windows and shareware, however it was still there.
Let us not rewrite history just to prove a point.
It seems the author of the review is also the person who started the project. Saying that Embedded Linux called it a "stable, viable alternative" is misleading. It should read that the programmer thinks it is an alternative.
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Number one really does not matter as much as you may think. With up to 4 processors and 32 Gb of memrory per board and Solaris's processor affinity, you don't need to go on the backplane much. Primarily I/O which is still slow compared to memory access speeds and is limited by the PCI buses. For those that do not know, processor affinity in Solaris is where the OS keeps the processes running on a processor on the memory local to that processor. With the dual core Sparc IV chips you can have 8 processors per board, though still limited to 32 Gb of memory.
You said - The GPL has been THE reference license since probably before you were born (tongue in cheek). And I would say BS. I would argue that the GPL has only become the force that it is since Linux has become popular. For example, back when the Amiga was popular, everything free either came out with the BSD license or was placed in the public domain. There was an increcdible amount of software licensed this way. Remember the Fred Fish collection? While the GNU tool chain was starting to become available, let us not forget that there was a lot of freely available software already, along with the sharing culture. Sure for a while it sort of submerged with the emphasis on Windows and shareware, however it was still there. Let us not rewrite history just to prove a point.
It seems the author of the review is also the person who started the project. Saying that Embedded Linux called it a "stable, viable alternative" is misleading. It should read that the programmer thinks it is an alternative.
Try either www.pendemonium.com or www.levenger.com