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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!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: 15 Jul 1996 00:16:52 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4sc2lk$d3l@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4rrimn$dro@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E16DB5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4rtvpf$7e5@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E73BCA.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <4s7jsd$blf@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E7B8A5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s8rtp$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> <4sactc$fd5@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4sbpim$f4i@mercury.mcs.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:55422 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23559 les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) 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. But then you must admit that at least three different BSD streams are not too many: . one for a commercially supported system . one for a multi-platform system . one for a ``mainstream platform(s) only'' but all whistles and bells system That should cover 24 of your 25 reasons. ;-) (Note that i personally don't have a problem with seeing more than one Linux distribution, but i do have a problem with Larry McVoy not allowing us to have more than one *BSD distribution.) -- 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. ;-)