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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!col.hp.com!sdd.hp.com!svc.portal.com!news1.best.com!shell1.best.com!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3sc904$1r7@shell1.best.com> References: <marcus.114.00E9749F@ccelab.iastate.edu> <3s98a9$c3c@gate.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell1.best.com 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