From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 13 11: 1:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F67115254 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:01:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA29402; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:01:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:01:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High syscall overhead? In-Reply-To: <25577.929296542@verdi.nethelp.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > 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. > And the differences between a BSD system and Linux aren't huge? Nay, sir, surely you jest. I, personally, dislike people using the wrong terminology. Linux is a relatively Unix-like and relatively POSIX-compliant system, but it's not Unix. What's wrong with calling a system by its true name? > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no > > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___/___/___/ " THAT'S WRONG WRONG WRONG!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message