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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsreader.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.cuhk.edu.hk!newsfeeder.ust.hk!nntp.hk.super.net!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 20:15:30 -0700 Organization: CET Lines: 38 Message-ID: <31EDAC52.7E9@cet.co.jp> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4pf7f9$bsf@white.twinsun.com> <4rql4p$39f@innocence.interface-business.de> <4rrimn$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$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E9B45E.48BF@cet.co.jp> <4seet9$f0l@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a15m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45521 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23820 Larry McVoy wrote: > > 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 ^^^^^^ Ok. I'll give you the kernel. But there's version drift between different distributions and there's quite a bit of difference in the applications and utilities being distributed. There's also quite a bit of differences in the future directions of the various distributions. I've had to deal with at least 2 different and incompatible versions of rpcgen in Linux distributions. As time passes, divergence increases. It's inevitable. > NT, instead of N source trees like Unix. One is better than many. NT is a little different. The source code is not freely distributable and this makes it pretty hard for it to diverge. You should probably look at the diversity of Unix as a strength and find better ways to utilize the diversity to our advantage. Do you really think that ... "We are Linux, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated." ... is going to work. I don't think we can hope for more than selective adoption of each other's strengths in the best case. -mike hancock