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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6413b417b806eb28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: Linux Kernel in Ada. Repost Date: 1999/04/09 Message-ID: <7elrg5$egk2@ftp.kvaerner.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 464567711 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7eg43i$d3b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <370CC730.4C6112DB@utech.net> <370D7007.2D3AD58B@rocketmail.com> <7el9so$geb@drn.newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: Kv�rner Oil & Gas Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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,