Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:10:22 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thank you! Message-ID: <200501141910.j0EJANK06097@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050114190406.GA22978@xor.obsecurity.org> from "Kris Kennaway" at Jan 14, 2005 11:04:06 AM
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> > ... Much misc drivel excised. > > > > rather ridicule people that ask why than fix things. > > > > > > So your claim that its a "heavy-duty server" platform is tainted by the > > > fact that in order to use the fastest server Mobos, you have to use the > > > slower, > > > still-under-development 5.x. Which seems counterproductive for an O/S > > > that is trying to establish itself as a choice as a server platform. > >=20 > > Not necessarily. The interesting question hasn't been addressed yet. > > Is 5.3 on its fastest supported chipset faster or slower than 4.10 on > > its fastest supported chipset? I would be willing to guess that it is. > > Then the whole thing gets down to a difference of opinion about > > development priorities in the face of limited resources. > > Better to expend resources on making 5.3 faster than 4.10 on all > > chipsets or retrofit 4.10 to the new ones? > > Mr AOL Troll also likes to ignore emails refuting his chosen > world-view (e.g. earlier emails on the topic he's trolling about > above), so he should just be ignored since meaningful discourse isn't > possible. It's too bad he's now choosing to be even more antisocial > by changing his email address to avoid the procmail filters of those > for whom his rantings have lost their amusement, although this just > makes his behaviour more obvious to other bystanders. Yah, sorry I responded, but sometimes it gets to be too much. ////jerry > > Kris >
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