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From: "Richard J. Finn" <rfinn@Houston-InterWeb.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network Performance
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:42:27 -0500
Organization: Houston InterWeb Design, Inc. & NeoSoft, Inc.
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Lee Cremeans wrote:
> 
> In article <slrn5qngmn.ie2.jlc@mass-pc.wpi.edu>,
>         jlc@mass-pc.wpi.edu (Jennifer Carmack (don't delete -jeffs)) writes:
> > Greetings,
> >
> >    Since Linux's networking performance is now superior to FreeBSD's, isn't
> > it about time for the FreeBSD developers to admit that Linux is better and
> > give up?  I constantly hear BSD people say that they have a better TCP/IP
> > stack than Linux, but we all know in actuality this is no longer true.
> >    Since most other parts of Linux are now superior to BSD as well, and
> > are constantly improving, you BSD people really need to move into the future.
> > And the future is Linux.
> >
> > I hope you all seriously think about this.
> 
> Can you say "Troll" boys adn girls? I knew you could.
> 

	You know... I tried to install Linux on one of my machines to try it
out.  It couldn't find my primary network device, while FreeBSD had no
problem at all.  Seems to me it's a little hard to have a better TCP/IP
stack if you can't even get the network interface up.  Shrug.

	I have used it and I haven't seem anything that really impressed me.  

-- 
Richard J. Finn        rfinn@houston-interweb.com
CTO - Houston InterWeb Design, Inc.
R&D Programmer - NeoSoft, Inc.
http://www.houston-interweb.com/