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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 14 Jul 1996 08:59:24 GMT
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lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) wrote:

>   I am certainly biased in
> that I prefer to work with Linus & Co, simply because I never get into
> this sort of waste of time.

Mind you, we are only getting into this waste of time due to (mostly)
silly discussions in Usenet.  Well, and we are not as much discussing
with the *BSD folks there...  So if you come for 5 minutes to ``this
side of the fence'', your argumentation looks very reasonable as well
-- just with the roles exchanged.

;-)

>   I feel that it is self defeating
> to have BSDI, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and 386BSD out there.

I feel that it is self defeating to have twenty-five different Linuxes
around. :)  (I mean complete systems here, not only kernels.)

C'mon.  The BSD camps are not that scattered as you would make us
believe.  386BSD is dead (and has been created for a totally different
purpose, that's why its `father' apparently went away), and BSDi is a
commercial enterprise that would hardly find a full counterpart in the
Linux camp.  This leaves three of your 5 `mainstreams', where OpenBSD
and NetBSD are indeed a result of some sad personality conflicts.  The
original roots of the NetBSD and FreeBSD streams are certainly also
personality-affected, but these days, there's mainly a different
enough focus between both `camps' that allows for a useful and
peaceful coexistance, including co-operation.  There's perhaps more
co-operation than you think there were... (though not as much as one
would wish there were).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)