Messages in this thread | | | From | Grozdan Nikolov <> | Subject | Re: How innovative is Linux? | Date | Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:19:43 +0200 |
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On Saturday 23 June 2007 18:12, you wrote: > On Saturday 23 June 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > A few innovations that afaik first appeared the Linux kernel > > - Making multiple hosts appear transparently as one IP address > > - Futex fast hybrid locking > > - Single pass checksum fragment and send fragments in reverse order > > - Reiserfs - very innovative design, but innovation isn't neccessarily > > success > > - JFFS/JFFS2 - flash wear levelled file system avoiding all the problem > > patents > > - Loadable modules for a non-microkernel > > - ALSA framework and drivers > - Direct Rendering Infrastructure > - hotplugging >
hmm, wasn't loadable kernel modules first implemented in SunOS 4.x together with the proc system ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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