From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 2 13:51:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from medulla.hippocampus.net (medulla.hippocampus.net [204.138.241.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F042B15CB3 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:50:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@netstor.com) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by medulla.hippocampus.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA27004; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:50:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:50:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas X-Sender: marc@medulla.hippocampus.net To: Karl Pielorz Cc: chris@calldei.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric In-Reply-To: <37CEE18B.3495C9A5@tdx.co.uk> 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 > If we must have it, how about a port? - I'm definitely for the "this isn't a > good idea" crowd, When I was using Linux, I thought it was 'cute'... I've > grown up a bit since then... Create /usr/ports/useless_linux_utils Add this and code for making the keyboard lights blink in time to whatever audio CD is playing ;-) I agree with what seems to be the consenus: not only are BogoMIPS useless in themselves, but it does detract from the 'professional' feel of FreeBSD. -marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message