From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 7 10:36:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D59537B40B for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:36:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA2C15; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:36:12 -0700 Message-ID: <3B70270B.34BAD6D@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 10:36:11 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kevin godfrey Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Actual Microsoft Question (Was: Re: Microsoft Bashers) References: <009301c11e4a$3f560620$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <3B6FCF84.DA6E5177@ticktockman.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org kevin godfrey wrote: > So as I see it, most of the major operating systems TCP/IP implementations are > based on BSD. If I recall correctly, didn't Linux adopt the BSD stack not too > long ago? Or am I mistaken? IIRC, Linux used to use the BSD stack, but they have reimplemented it in 2.4x. Why? I don't know. It wasn't broken, so I can only guess embarassment was the cause. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message