From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 17 12:16:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47CCA37B749 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:15:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5DC91224E; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:15:21 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000217182741.20025.qmail@nwcst267.netaddress.usa.net> References: <20000217182741.20025.qmail@nwcst267.netaddress.usa.net> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:00:11 +0100 To: Jonathon McKitrick , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux comments Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 8:57 PM +0100 2000/2/17, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Obviously BSD *has* changed, but is there merit to any of these comments? See some of Matt Dillon's comments regarding Linux. Our memory management scheme beats the crap out of theirs, although their SMP is ahead of ours. I think our network stack still beats theirs, but maybe 2.3 really does fix some of those problems -- I wonder if the folks at NFS, the authors of ntop, and Darren Reed (author of IP filter) have any thoughts on that. -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy _________________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/726.93.11 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message