From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.no>
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost
Date: 1999/04/09
Date: 1999-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7elrg5$egk2@ftp.kvaerner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7el9so$geb@drn.newsguy.com
me@me wrote in message <7el9so$geb@drn.newsguy.com>...
>
>Why don't we write a brand new OS in Ada? It will be all in 100% pure
>Ada. It will be the most powerfull, most reliable, most flexible,
>100% up-time, 24 hrs per day, 365 days per year, and runs on 1000 CPU's
>without a sweat, a kicks Ass OS, it will mnake Solaris and Linux and
>the Hurd and VMS and OS390 look like little babies in front of it.
It would be more useful to write useful utilities for Linux in Ada or extend
Linux with Ada software.
A few things that could/should be improved; NIS and printing.
NIS has real problems with even reasonable sized files (or maps as they call
it). E.g. there are problems with the number of members of groups. You cannot
have password aging with NIS. NIS+ is supposed to have its own problems and is
supposedly not an option.
There is a lot that can be done about printing in Unix. Especially with regards
to proper handling of printers, access control, etc. HP does reasonably well
with their own printers with the Jetadmin software for HP-UX and Solaris. SGI
seems to do reasonably well with their scripts (although I don't like their
lpsched implementation). A common problem is that the printing system have to
be shut down before you can do certain operations, like adding or removing a
printer. Sometime it is hard to find where the host keeps certain information
about ques on the remote machine.
I'm sure others will tell you more things that needs to be done.
Greetings,
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-07 0:00 Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Bruce MacDonald
1999-04-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-08 0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-09 0:00 ` me
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-09 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen [this message]
1999-04-09 0:00 ` bill_
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Mich
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` OpenToken project announcement dennison
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Robert Dewar
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Kevin
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Harry Tanovich
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-10 0:00 ` mike
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-16 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Accessing C macro constants from Ada95 Markus Kuhn
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Jerry van Dijk
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-14 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-04-09 0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
1999-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-12 0:00 ` Bruce MacDonald
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Buz Cory
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Hans N. Beck
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