Re: [SLUG] Info on 'TUX'

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:05:43AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> Sluggers,
> 
> There's some interesting info on a new high performance web serving 
> package called TUX buried in a slashdot discussion at:
> 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/05/0211257
> (the article about the recent specweb pissing contest).
> 
> I'm not sure what the url for a specific post there would be, but have a
> look for a comment by Ingo Molnar with the subject 'more info about TUX
> 1.0'.  It looks kind of like an announcement that happened into the
> discussion.
> 
> It's partly kernel resident (like khttpd), is GPL'd and will apparently be
> released soon.  It looks like a major ass-kicking piece of software, and
> demonstrate much of the scalability work that's been going into 2.4.

From the Slashdot forum (for those who couldn't find it) Ingo Molnar writes:

"i'm the one who designed/wrote most of TUX, and here are some facts about it. 

'TUX' comes from 'Threaded linUX webserver', and is a kernel-space HTTP 
subsystem. TUX was written by Red Hat and is based on the 2.4 kernel series. 
TUX is under the GPL and will be released in a couple of weeks. TUX's main 
goal is to enable high-performance webserving on Linux, and while it's not as 
feature-full as Apache, TUX is a 'full fledged' HTTP/1.1 webserver supporting 
HTTP/1.1 persistent (keepalive) connections, pipelining, CGI execution, logging,
virtual hosting, various forms of modules, and many other webserver features. 
TUX modules can be user-space or kernel-space. "

So it another great contribution by RedHat. Keen beans can find source at:

<URL: http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/api-src/Dell-20000626.tar.gz>

Thanks for pointing it out James, 
Regards,
Anand
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