From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 6 22:39:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ciao.cc.columbia.edu (ciao.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1151571F for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 22:39:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (dialup-5-3.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.47.23]) by ciao.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA28496 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 01:37:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <370AEEFC.8E7F4CD1@confusion.net> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 01:37:01 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Linux Vs FreeBSD networking Code Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From a post on Slashdot: ** Duh! ** by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 06, @06:38PM EDT ** The key phrase is led to believe. ** Since Linux's networking code is completely new (not from old BSD code) it took a long time to **catch up. Now it's quite a bit faster then free bsd ** (and the benchmarks prove it, in fact, Linux has the fastest network performance of any general purpose OS). Anyone want to confirm or deny what this person is saying? I've heard both sides argued, but not by anyone who is going beyond uninformed or at least semi-uninformed bickering. Anyone have a more informed perspective on the issue? -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message