From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jul 29 4:42:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from acs-24-154-37-140.zoominternet.net (acs-24-154-37-140.zoominternet.net [24.154.37.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7131037B403 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 04:42:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmmiller@acs-24-154-37-140.zoominternet.net) Received: (from dmmiller@localhost) by acs-24-154-37-140.zoominternet.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6TBgBY34414; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:42:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dmmiller) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 07:42:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200107291142.f6TBgBY34414@acs-24-154-37-140.zoominternet.net> From: Donn Miller To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dmr on Linux and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20010701130512.A478_sydney.worldwide.lemis.com@ns.sol.net> X-Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.advocacy User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.3-STABLE (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20010701130512.A478_sydney.worldwide.lemis.com@ns.sol.net> you wrote: > LM: Have you ever looked at the Linux source code? > > dmr: I haven't looked in a lot of detail. A year and a half ago or > so, we ported Inferno to it, and it was somewhat of a pain. > Somebody discovered a driver--I guess--some place in the kernel > that had some extremely stupid thing going on. It was about then > that Ken gave some interview, and he remarked that he didn't > think very much of the quality of the code. LM: Well, if you think that's bad, you should see the Windows 98 source code. dmr: Heh heh! I'd be willing to bet there's quite a number of "extremely stupid" things going on in KERNEL32.DLL, so yes, I suppose it really is all relative. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message