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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/