From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 19:10:27 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E95F16A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:10:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8CED43D1F for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:10:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j0EJANK06097; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:10:23 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200501141910.j0EJANK06097@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:10:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20050114190406.GA22978@xor.obsecurity.org> from "Kris Kennaway" at Jan 14, 2005 11:04:06 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Len Zettel cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thank you! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:10:27 -0000 > > ... 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 >