Your concerns about BA running an ISP may or may not be founded, but I thought I'd point out that they already do, with traditional analog modems: bellatlantic.net. I've spoken with some of the people in their NOC, and they were definitely ISP people, not phone types.
But seriously, even I, the avoider of Linux, caught a factual error in this article -- I have it on good authority that Linus had to be talked into naming the OS Linux instead of Freax.
Curmudgeonliness is good and right, but a curmudgeon who doesn't have his research straight is nothing but a common flamer.
Actually, it's BSD*ish* with a Mach 3.0 base. Not quite the same as a traditional monolithic BSD kernel, though it'll look the same to most programmers.
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Your concerns about BA running an ISP may or may not be founded, but I thought I'd point out that they already do, with traditional analog modems: bellatlantic.net. I've spoken with some of the people in their NOC, and they were definitely ISP people, not phone types.
Then you must not read comp.unix.advocacy.
But seriously, even I, the avoider of Linux, caught a factual error in this article -- I have it on good authority that Linus had to be talked into naming the OS Linux instead of Freax.
Curmudgeonliness is good and right, but a curmudgeon who doesn't have his research straight is nothing but a common flamer.
Actually, it's BSD*ish* with a Mach 3.0 base. Not quite the same as a traditional monolithic BSD kernel, though it'll look the same to most programmers.
This may have been stolen from Stan Kelly-Bootle.
I don't buy it. The Solaris kernel still surpasses Linux in key areas, like SMP.