From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: ffc1e,d0d32a18bbb61bb0 X-Google-Attributes: gidffc1e,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d0d32a18bbb61bb0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-29 23:16:15 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!204.127.161.2.MISMATCH!wn2feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: cj.green@worldnet.att.net (Christopher Green) Newsgroups: comp.programming.threads,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD a better choice for threads/tasking? Message-ID: <3ac426a6.736068@netnews.att.net> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:14:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.80.37.32 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 985936493 12.80.37.32 (Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:14:53 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:14:53 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: supernews.google.com comp.programming.threads:3415 comp.lang.ada:6232 Date: 2001-03-30T07:14:53+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:36:16 -0800, "Mike Silva" wrote: >Is either of these OSes (on x86) the preferred choice based on completeness >and performance of their threading implementations? I'm looking to improve >my skills at both raw POSIX threads programming and Ada task programming >(GNAT) and want to make the right OS choice, if there is one. Thanks for >any comments. > >Mike Linux has the more mature and stable threads implementation. GNAT on Linux works directly with Linux threads. Go with Linux unless you must have a BSD-ish Unix. However, watch out for Linux 2.4 kernels; Linux threads were broken in these kernels (at least as of last September). Linux kernel 2.2-based distributions, such as RedHat 7.0, are fine. -- Chris Green