linux-kernel - Re: How innovative is Linux?

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Date:	Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:12:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Torsten Duwe <duwe@....de>
cc:	Grozdan Nikolov <microchip@...llo.be>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?


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
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