Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:12:18 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: How innovative is Linux? |
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On Jun 23 2007 18:12, Torsten Duwe 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 > >- hotplugging
Was not Windows 95 first here?
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