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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 14 Jul 1996 16:41:42 -0500
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In article <4sactc$fd5@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>
>>   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.)

I disagree (in both cases).  There are at least 25 reasons to set up
a system differently.   However, I wish it were not left as an exercise
to the reader to find out which is best for which purposes, and worse
to try to keep his own system up to date in spite of the fact that
application distributions may have different defaults than that particular
setup.  In other words, I'd like to see all distributions include a
discussion of the philosophy behind any changes and maintain an archive
site where updated apps can be obtained for that distribution.  The number
of variations would then be pretty much irrelevant.

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com