From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 11 17:17:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from haggis.it.ca (haggis.it.ca [216.126.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA9F037B417 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:17:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from paul@localhost) by haggis.it.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBC1HNe00557; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:17:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from paul) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 20:17:23 -0500 From: Paul Chvostek To: D J Hawkey Jr Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tangent for discussion: FreeBSD performs worse that Linux Message-ID: <20011211201723.A97414@mail.it.ca> References: <20011210155924.A1542@sheol.localdomain> <20011210173206.A1795@sheol.localdomain> <20011211061406.C35343@blackhelicopters.org> <20011211054818.A5471@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: <20011211054818.A5471@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:48:19AM -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 05:48:19AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > No challenge necessary. I, too, believe the general attitude is "Go for it.". > So I'm going to. It won't be much to look at initially - maybe ever - but > I'll bring it up and see what happens. It'll take a few days, but I'll post > an "It's here." when it's here. BTW, am I allowed to use the daemon mascot? I currently have the domains mybsd.(com|net|org|biz). If you'd like the patch database to be associated with any or all of those domains, I'd be happy to oblige. (The hostname "patch.mybsd.com" is pretty. ;> ) I've been trying to figure out what to do with these for quite a while. Perhaps this is an opportunity. > Ack. Don't do that. Sooner or later, the economy will pick up again, I'll > get myself the badly-needed job I lost, and my play-time will once again > be reduced by a factor of four. The last thing I'll need then is any kind > of publicity. Ah, but with fame can come fortune. Once you're widely known as The Man for customizing FreeBSD, you can double your consulting rates, thereby doubling the free time you can allocate to the library. ;-) p -- Paul Chvostek Operations / Development / Abuse / Whatever vox: +1 416 598-0000 IT Canada http://www.it.ca/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message