RE: cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat-4.0/service/java SimpleService.jav a

[GOMEZ Henri <hg...@slib.fr>]

>> 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...