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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: HELP: installing netbsd+64mb RAM+adaptec
Date: 17 Nov 1994 03:47:43 GMT
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In-reply-to: kpn@thunder.catt.ncsu.edu's message of 16 Nov 1994 00:46:29 GMT
In article <3abkp5$3pc@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> kpn@thunder.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal) writes:
Larry McVoy (lm@fubar) wrote:
: This is why many, many people have backed away from *BSD. It is most
: unfortunate because in many cases (i.e., networking) the *BSD code is
: better than the Linux code.
Exactly how is the BSD networking code better than the Linux code? I'm
curious.
The BSD networking code has had over ten years of development and
maturing. It has been used in literally millions of computers over
the past ten years, and has single-handedly established the Internet
as we know it. It is solid, stable, well debugged and well published
from all this work. How much better can you get than that? :-)
Where did the linux code come from, anyway?
People have been writing it from scratch for the last year or so...
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532
In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m
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