Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:37:17 -0500 From: Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org, jdc@nterprise.net, arief@bna.telkomsel.co.id, tech@openbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Technical Differences of *BSD and Linux Message-ID: <20030204153717.GB13622@endersgame.net> In-Reply-To: <3E3F5710.D6F04347@mindspring.com> References: <20030124184914.E7F1C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> <1044332953.4362.65.camel@lohr.digitalglobe.com> <200302040528.AAA01316@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> <3E3F5710.D6F04347@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:00:48PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: <snip > This is actually incorrect. At one point in time, the email > address of the driver authors was printed out in boot messsages, > under Linux. They had a "flag day" in which Linus removed all > the printf's. This flag day was actually commercially motivated. Some (many?) Linux drivers still print out the e-mail addresses of the author. I base this claim on the dmesg from a 2.4.something/alpha system I saw the other day. <snip> -- /~\ The ASCII \ / Ribbon Campaign Sean Davis X Against HTML aka dive / \ Email! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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