From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 05:19:57 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA29139 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 05:19:57 -0800 Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA29134 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 05:19:35 -0800 Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id IAA01488; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 08:33:57 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199511270733.IAA01488@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Java.. To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 08:33:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: Kai.Vorma@hut.fi, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at Nov 26, 95 11:20:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1196 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I just downloaded 2.0b3 for Linux to check out the Java support. It seems > to be running at a decent speed, so that's good. But since I've been > using FreeBSD for all my Internet applications, since the PPP speed in > Linux is basically crap (2.8Kbps vs. 3.2Kbps for FreeBSD!), I also D/Led define something crap because of such a small (in absolute terms, not relative ones) difference in speed seems a bit too much! > the BSD version, and even though there is no Java, it did fix ALL of the > bugs I reported (non-blinking cursor, and problems with my dial-on-demand the non-blinking cursor was a more general problem with timer events which were not listened to when waiting for X events. This also affected dynamic pages using the client-pull mechanism, and possibly other features. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================