Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:34:07 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kblob discussion. Message-ID: <200006200334.UAA10984@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:18:16 MDT." <200006200318.VAA15996@nomad.yogotech.com>
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> > Actually, I think I'm looking at a *bigger* picture - what can we do to > > make FreeBSD a better platform for real-world applications? > > For a very common application, yes. WWW serving is not FreeBSD's strong > point, IMO. In more or less complete defiance of this, a lot of people use it for just this very application, and will probably continue to do so. > As a matter of fact, I'd venture to guess that FreeBSD is used in more > embedded systems as a 'network' platform than it's ever used as a WWW > server. That doesn't change the fact that it is, despite your perhaps hard-held beliefs otherwise, used very extensively for web service, and particularly for bulk static content delivery. > However, it just so happens that recently it seems that Yahoo has been > pushing *HARD* for alot of WWW-server specific changes, that have little > usefulness outside of that specific application. They have? Would you care to name one? > > The ability to send static content in the most efficient manner possible > > is a key "big picture" item. You're so tied up in what would be the most > > wonderful engineering solution that you're completely ignoring this. > > You're so wrapped up with building WWW server that you've completely > ignored the rest of the developer community, who actually have needs for > something *more generic* that you're incapable of seeing the forest > since you've gotta cut down that one tree fast, and who gives a rip what > anyone else needs to do in the forest... Hyperbole. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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