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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!caamora!jmichaels From: jmichaels@caamora.caamora.com.au (jonathan michaels) Date: 14 Jul 96 21:51:04 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: TCP latency Message-ID: <90a_9607151320@caamora.caamora.com.au> References: <4s8ic0$9tf@pier2.bayarea.net> Organization: Caamora, Clovelly NSW Australia Lines: 65 thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net wrote in a message to All: tb> @MSGID: mid__4s8ic0$9tf@pier2.bayarea.net 87c50001 tb> @REPLY: mid__4s7j2r$blf@fido.asd.sgi.com 250b0001 tb> @REPLYTO 13:13/13 UUCP tb> @REPLYADDR thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net tb> @GID GIGO+ sn 149 at caamora vsn 0.99.960124 tb> From: thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net (Jason R. Thorpe) tb> Date: 13 Jul 1996 16:20:15 GMT tb> In article <4s7j2r$blf@fido.asd.sgi.com>, tb> Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote: >Think about who you are talking about. Here's a guy that has written >much of a generic kernel (*nobody* in the BSD camp can come close to >saying the same), a guy that is doing a hell of job of outperforming your tb> I feel compelled to say "So what?". I fail to see how the fact tb> that Linus wrote the core of the Linux kernel has any bearing on tb> anything. tb> Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@bayarea.net> agreed .. but its an interesting observstion that you have made. linux's stature is measured by how the kernal performs it business and how important it is that one person wrote this one piece (figurativly speaking) of code. this ic compared and measured against freebsd as a whole which is written by whole bunch of people and is treated accordingly, savagely .. looks to me like someone is missing the point. just for the record, i started to use linux at the first of the .98 kernal releases .. it was a nightmare to get working on my indusrt standard component i386dx33 ith i387 and a whoel 8 mb of dram .. pretty hot stuff 6 years ago. then after i gave up and my needs changed .. about a year ago i found a need for unix again and this time a friend recomended freebsd, so i purchased freebsd 2.0.5 i think (walnut creek) and the slackware 1.13 i think as well as the yddrggasill plug and play .. both linux's had sever driver problems and i was unable to compile a kernel from the as supplied ON CD sources .. even after extensive research i wasn't able to do this simple task. sfter i got the freebsd cdrom i installed the basic system and was delighted to find that i could recomile the kernel "at will" and all of the sources *for the things i checked) were thhier, available and compiled with a hitch. i atill have the original floppies from the .98ish bootstrap that i made and the cdroms to remind me what the differences in the free software world really are. they are much like what this thread a "degenerated" into ... i don't know who is going to win this time and i don't really care much, any more .. because the same stuff is being said over and over and over again .. isn't it about time a new topic was found, something a little different. sorry fir the whinge .. i;m getting a little tired of this stuff going on. regards ... jonathan EMail: jlm@caamora.com.au ... ps, old dog having trouble learning new tricks -- Caamora (InterNet Services) __________________________________________ PO Box 2036 Clovelly West NSW 2031 Australia data +61 2 6659249 ------------------------------------------- <jmichaels@caamora.com.au>