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From: rcarter@best.com (Russell Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: When did this become linux.advocacy
Date: 22 Jun 1995 10:24:18 -0700
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In article <3s98a9$c3c@gate.sinica.edu.tw>,
Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>In article <marcus.114.00E9749F@ccelab.iastate.edu>, Marcus I. Ryan <marcus@ccelab.iastate.edu> wrote:
>>
>>People choose Linux for a reason.  I would like it if those from the Linux 

-snip-

>    There are very few reasons right now that would compel someone to
>switch from one to the other.  In my case, I did originally have Linux
>here, but the NFS performance was so bad that it was seriously

-snip-snip-

That's part of the very good reason to prefer FreeBSD over Linux:
high performance networking.  My 100BaseT FreeBSD network is
running fine at 53 Mb/s and 550 us tcp latency.

Regards,
Russell

Geli Engineering                   http://www.geli.com
Pentium Workstation Clusters and Distributed Computing