From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 18:09:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06877 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:09:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net (porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net [206.64.4.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06872 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:09:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA03616; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:11:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:11:49 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net To: Brian Feldman cc: Mike Smith , obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > > I can see we are simply of two minds on this issue. :) What do some of > > > > the others think? > > > > > > While I agree with the silly name, I think we are approaching another > > > gratuitous change. It is our history, /usr/mdec is where people are used > > > to looking, ... > > > > It is our history to have buggy NFS. It is our history to have a > > bogus kernel module subsystem. It is our history to play catch-up to > > Linux. > > When we "catch up" to Linux, for every advance, we always have a > better-implemented version of whatever new has been gotten on Linux. Maybe > except for NFS.... but that's being working on, eh? I hope you are refering to Linux NFS being far inferior to FreeBSD's impelementation. If you are not then where do we fall behind? I haven't seen Linux outperform FreeBSD in any NFS work i've done. Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message