From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jan 3 02:14:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA05362 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 02:14:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA05357; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 02:14:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.52]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA2873; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 11:13:55 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 11:21:05 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Steven Ji Subject: RE: snotty quotes Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message