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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!van-bc!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!not-for-mail 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 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4sbpim$f4i@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <31E7B8A5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s8rtp$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> <4sactc$fd5@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:55414 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23548 In article <4sactc$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