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From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
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Date: 15 Jul 1996 21:58:01 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Michael Hancock (michaelh@cet.co.jp) wrote:
: Larry McVoy wrote:
: > 
: > to have BSDI, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and 386BSD out there.  Isn't
: > it obvious at this point that Linux is doing a much better job of keeping
: > the crowd of people focussed on the technology instead of the personalities?

: Debian, Redhat, Caldera, plus a host of 15 or so others.

All using the same kernel source tree from Linus.  One source tree, like
NT, instead of N source trees like Unix.  One is better than many.
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Larry McVoy     lm@sgi.com     http://reality.sgi.com/lm     (415) 933-1804