From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 28 5:55:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF8AE37BF24 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 05:55:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 96213 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2000 12:55:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 28 Jul 2000 12:55:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 13553 invoked by uid 211); 28 Jul 2000 12:55:28 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 18:25:28 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Alan Clegg Cc: Freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux kernel and FreeBSD neck and neck? Message-ID: <20000728182528.A13548@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Clegg , Freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20000728124727.A58850@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000728173235.A13136@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000728131956.B58850@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000728180020.A13337@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000728133500.C58850@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000728181223.B13337@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000728085610.C11712@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000728085610.C11712@diskfarm.firehouse.net>; from abc@bsdi.com on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 08:56:10AM +0000 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alan Clegg said on Jul 28, 2000 at 08:56:10: > Out of the ether, Rahul Siddharthan spewed forth the following bitstream: > > [..snip..] (I'm sitting on a linux machine right now, running a > > 2.4-pre kernel, and if it gets better I'd have no reason to feel unhappy > > about it.) > > It is my understanding that FreeBSD boxes are much softer than Linux > boxes and won't cause numbness in the buttox. Heh. Sorry about that. But if the linux desktop is more "flexible", I think it would be easier on the bottom... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message