From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 15:01:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5742A16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:01:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao01.cox.net (lakemtao01.cox.net [68.1.17.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F032E43D2D for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:01:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from A.J.Caines@halplant.com) Received: from mail.halplant.com ([68.100.162.49]) by lakemtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040217230132.COFY13731.lakemtao01.cox.net@mail.halplant.com> for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:01:32 -0500 Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 639D44C; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:01:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:01:30 -0500 From: Andrew J Caines To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040217230130.GA51332@hal9000.halplant.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <200402140220.i1E2KTR03950@eth1.ssl.sonic.net> <20040214041011.GA10679@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040214041011.GA10679@xor.obsecurity.org> Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE X-URL: http://halplant.com:88/ X-Yahoo-Profile: AJ_Z0 X-ICQ: 283813972 Importance: Normal User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: your mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Andrew J Caines List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:01:32 -0000 Kris Kennaway said... > The null program has been ported to every OS and architecture that has > or will ever be produced. FreeBSD's null implementation has been shown in several independent benchmark tests to run faster than all other tested platforms and fully supports the null specification. The Linux null implementation run under emulation has been reported to run faster than the native version on similar hardware, however these reports have not been well substantiated and have been vigorously challenged by a number of Anonymous Cowards. Microsoft have recently announced that they will be the first to bring null technology to the computing world with the first release of MS Nothing version 8.0 SP6, available in early 2010 for whatever they are calling the latest tarted up version of Windows at the time. License terms have not been disclosed, but have been unofficially reported to be as little as one soul per seat. SCO has filed suit in California against various orphans, humanitarian charities, homeless persons and the deceased for the infringement of their UNIX[TM] System V[TM] Null technology intellectual property, obtained from Caldera, obtained from obtained from Novell, [...], obtained from BSD. SCO CEO issued a press statement saying "I am taking my null and going home". -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 |