From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 11 13:26:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553F837B419; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:26:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBBLN5Z39867; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:23:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:23:05 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: D J Hawkey Jr Cc: Nik Clayton , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tangent for discussion: FreeBSD performs worse that Linux Message-ID: <20011211162304.A39837@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20011209100855.A22942@sheol.localdomain> <20011209084620.V14858-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <20011209111523.A23357@sheol.localdomain> <20011209175137.B13554@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20011209121703.A23726@sheol.localdomain> <20011210080032.A4215@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20011210152414.A1367@sheol.localdomain> <20011211191403.B82053@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20011211150459.A8415@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011211150459.A8415@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 03:04:59PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 03:04:59PM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > I am rather hoping there's a bunch of packrats lurking in hacker@ that might > mail me their backports. It'd make a better initial impression. Let me disabuse you of that notion right now. You're it. Most people in -hackers fall into two groups: 1) track -stable 2) track -current You're it. Congrats. Put up what you've got. > Only if I get BSD daemon badges for my machines, a BSD sweatshirt or cap, > and an "@freebsd.org" mail addy. :-) Nope. Just an @freebsd.org mail addy and a coupon for economy-size Maalox. Sorry. Put up what you've got. > For those that're interested (and have the time), it's at > http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/freebsd-backports.html > for review/critique. It's only a WIP at this point; please don't do anything > to publicize it. I'll mail hackers@ again when it's done, for final review/ > critique. Oh. Well, okay, you put up what you got. Good start, now let's get some patches up there. :) -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message