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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
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: 29 Jan 1997 15:43:27 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <5cm5h3$bfg@lynx.dac.neu.edu>,
Michael Kagalenko <mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote:
> Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote in article <5cm1o4$5fg@web.nmti.com>
> ]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".
Well, an acknowledgement that it's no longer a complete disaster.
> Otherwise, where are those horror stories
> about current (or, 1 year old) Linux releases ?
There's a couple of Linux boxes off on the net with fairly recent kernels that
kick me off when they start getting heavily loaded. I don't know whether it's
due to the networking stack, or the scheduling, or something else... but there
is still some catching up to do somewhere.
> ] It's not there yet.
> Why one should care ?
See above.
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'