From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 6 22:50:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B85C714CF3 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 22:50:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA12537; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:18:17 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA13644; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:18:17 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990407151817.J2142@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:18:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Laurence Berland , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux Vs FreeBSD networking Code References: <370AEEFC.8E7F4CD1@confusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <370AEEFC.8E7F4CD1@confusion.net>; from Laurence Berland on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 01:37:01AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 7 April 1999 at 1:37:01 -0400, Laurence Berland wrote: >> 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? Well, I see this person has backed up his claims with his name and evidence, so I suppose I should do so as well. Take a look at http://advisor.gartner.com/n_inbox/hotcontent/hc_2121999_3.html#h8 for a more neutral viewpoint. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message