Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756845AbXFWSM1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:12:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753996AbXFWSMU (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:12:20 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:3289 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753592AbXFWSMT (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:12:19 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:12:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Torsten Duwe cc: Grozdan Nikolov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux? In-Reply-To: <200706231812.02317.duwe@lst.de> Message-ID: References: <200706231417.16086.microchip@chello.be> <200706231722.26931.microchip@chello.be> <20070623164608.05dc5c30@the-village.bc.nu> <200706231812.02317.duwe@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 26 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? Jan -- - 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/