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From: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux
In-Reply-To: eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de's message of Mon, 15 Nov 1993 08:53:13 GMT
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Sender: muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers)
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 06:29:38 GMT
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>> On Mon, 15 Nov 1993 08:53:13 GMT,
>> eilts@late.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Hinrich Eilts) said:
> Please tell me what you can do in FreeBSD and not in Linux???????
HE> Reliable networking. I tried Linus on a 386, connected to a NeXT and got:
HE> NFS, mounted on NeXT:
HE> NexT --> PC: 131 kB/sec, PC --> NeXT: 548 kB/sec
HE> NFS, mounted on PC:
HE> NeXT --> PC: 125 kB/sec, PC --> NeXT: 19 (!) kB/sec
HE> by copying two 1.4MB files.
HE> rcp and remote-piping ("rsh 'xx yy' < zz" etc) brokes.
With the latest net2 code (the new Linux networking code) I got
quite reliable networking. And got the highest transfer rates I saw on
our LAN so far: more than 700kb/s with ftp get (Sun to Linux).
I know it's hard for you to keep up to date, but it is like so many
things in Linux: either improving fast, or already nearly perfect.
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Peter Mutsaers, Bunnik (Ut), the Netherlands.