From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 13 10:55:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81D1D1522B for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 10:55:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 25579 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Jun 1999 17:55:42 +0000 (GMT) To: green@unixhelp.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High syscall overhead? From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Jun 1999 12:22:13 -0400 (EDT)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 19:55:42 +0200 Message-ID: <25577.929296542@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Linux is a Unix clone, while FreeBSD is Unix. Don't confuse people with > this. I'm afraid that attitude isn't going to help Unix agains Windows... I use FreeBSD for all my systems. I still go around and tell people that Linux is one several Unix variants, and I intend to continue doing this. For an end user, the differences between for instance FreeBSD and Linux are in most cases small and rather uninteresting - and it's much more useful to point out the differences between Unix and Windows. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message