>> I've been told there is some fools which use this 'OS' ;) > >Fools indeed.. I think many peoples should thanks Linux success. Linux, (like Apache) show to many IT directors that OpenSource was a VIABLE SOLUTION. And with distributions like Redhat, Mandrake, Suse installing Linux Boxes is no more reserved to high end Unix gurus. OpenSource meet now a larger audience. >> Even IBM have Linux port on their mainframe OS390 and now >> under AS/400. > >Yeah, too bad that basically they replaced 50% of the >kernel... They use >their own threads, their own memory >allocation/optimizations... Their I/O. I'll take a look soon at Suse 7.1 on my AS/400 and I'll could tell you what is IBM and what is community. >Their "port" is an operating system as close to Linux almost >as MacOS/X is close to FreeBSD... (or that's what I was told by some IBM >officials here in the UK).... Officials or Technicals ?) That's could be a big difference ... >> But did you try with the IBM SDK for Linux ? > >It's not the SDK, it the ld.so, glibc, and libpthread (or better their >kernel implementations)... The VM (incredibly enough) is the only thing >running correctly... May be you could drop a note to GNU team next time you'll meet them. As Jon said, it's OpenSource and you could contribute having a better product or just live with it. So better stop this thread there before it turns in a flams wars...