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From: "Walt A. Boring IV" <waboring@hemna.janet.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
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Michael Kagalenko wrote:
> 
> Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.portal.ca) wrote:
> ]In article <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu>,
> ]Michael Kagalenko <mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote:
> ]>J.C. Archambeau (jca@bighorn.accessnv.com) wrote:
> ]>]preferrential to BSD.  It also seems the FreeBSD is more solid that
> ]>]Linux in the networking department.
> ]>
> ]> I see this claim now and then. Can you post some specific data, comparing
> ]> Linux and BSD networking ?
------I have heard this claim from various people that I have worked
with at
Berkley as well, but I have never seen any data to validate the claims. 
The
most anyone would say is that, "NetBSD's networking is much "better"
than 
Linux"  What does that mean, and what context I have no idea.  In the
circles
that I work in, which includes a lot of universities that are doing
various
research in the wireless field, there have been arguments from ppl that
make
these claims.  I would love to find some hard data to prove or disprove
the
claims.  I myself like Linux, but my boss always questions me as to why
we
aren't using NetBSD because he hears all the claims from the other ppl. 
My
usual response is that I have never seen any date to validate it.


Walt
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Walt A. Boring IV                        waboring@janet.ucla.edu
Research Software Engineer -  Electrical Engineering Dept. UCLA
http://www.janet.ucla.edu/~waboring
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