Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 11:21:05 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Steven Ji <jsteve@research.poc.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: snotty quotes Message-ID: <XFMail.990103112105.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901030144340.13794-100000@ouch.Oof.NET>
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On 03-Jan-99 Steven Ji wrote: > I recently found this alleged Linus Torvalds quote on someone's sig, while > reading through a Linux mailing list archive. > > 'Ooohh.. "FreeBSD is faster over loopback, when compared to > Linux over the wire". Film at 11.' -Linus > > Does anybody know whether it's real? This statement is from the days the 2.0 wasn't even in the planning stages yet. I think this is a quote from back in the days he was still in Finland. That's roughly 5 years ago or so... > I've rarely heard such ludicrous comparisons... certainly never from any > official source or core member. Nor does the quote jive with what I know > about Linus himself. Ehm, it's his quote alright. It was one of the things he used to say when announcing new kernels and such... > In any case, this is the kind of wasted breath that causes tension between > the Linux and BSD communities, where there should instead be more healthy > exchange -- as there has been. Just about any UNIX-like OS has its place, > big or small, IMHO. Is this not the popular opinion? >From the BSD's mayhaps... IMHO Linux has it's share of 'l33t users. It also has good people offcourse =) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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