From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 9 14:27: 5 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 81A8937B405; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 14:27:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB9MQqk25818; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:26:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:26:52 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: D J Hawkey Jr Cc: Nik Clayton , Lamont Granquist , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tangent for discussion: FreeBSD performs worse that Linux Message-ID: <20011209172652.A25745@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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011209121703.A23726@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 12:17:03PM -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 Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 12:17:03PM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > So far, I've made three patchfiles that can be applied to 4.2REL and 4.3REL. > Not exactly the repertoire one would need to garner interest and momentum. Everything starts somewhere. When I wrote my first FreeBSD article a few years ago, I had no idea where it would lead. Keep it up, and the Project might well ask you to make it an official FreeBSD resource. If you start now, in a few months you'll have patchsets for 4.2-R, 4.3-R, 4.4-R, and 4.5-R. That looks like a pretty serious investment of time and/or dedication to me. It's cliche, but: ten thousand lines of code begins with the first #define. (Hmmmm.... click click click... okay, style(9) says it should be the first #include. But you get the idea.) ==ml -- 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