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From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Michael Kagalenko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 28 Jan 1997 19:27:15 -0500
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
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Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote in article <5cm1o4$5fg@web.nmti.com> <pre><blink>
]
]On the other foot, what about the boycott of Berkeley networking in Linux,
]leading to endless horror stories while Linux networking tried to catch
]up with the standard networking stack.
I read that as an acknowledgement that Linux caught up with
"standard networking stack". Otherwise, where are those horror stories
about current (or, 1 year old) Linux releases ?
] It's not there yet.
Why one should care ?
I think that there's some confusion present when people argue that
Linux code is not as clean. Even if it is, that says nothing
about performance. Sometimes one compromises code clarity
for performance.
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