From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 4 17:19:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5216414E9D; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:19:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id RAA12760; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:18:18 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id RAA05180; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:18:17 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA29563; Sat, 4 Dec 99 17:18:14 PST Message-Id: <3849BD69.275BA9D6@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 18:18:33 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Dennis Cc: Mike Smith , Kris Kennaway , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?) References: <199912041829.NAA16812@etinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dennis wrote: > > At 10:28 AM 12/4/99 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > > >If you're insinuating that Linux is more stable and reliable than FreeBSD, > >you're absolutely and unequivocally wrong. > > All Im saying is that more people use linux because its getting better and > they are responsive to their community. Im comparing Freebsd 2.2.8 to 3.3 > and citing that there are more problems with 3.3 than 2.2.8 Linux 2.2 was a > vast improvement over 2.0 whilst that clearly isnt the case here. But it clearly is the case to the vast majority of FreeBSD users, and your snotty remarks aren't helping. > > Unless they're running your drivers. I'm perfectly willing to accept YOUR > > DRIVERS might be less unstable on Linux than FreeBSD. > > "less unstable". Is that a technical term? If you are going to make totally > ignorant statements at least try to get the semantics right. I was politely mealy-mouthing my way around an insinuation that it is your driver and not FreeBSD 3.x that sucks. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message