From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jan 5 15:46:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03313 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:46:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03273; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:46:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA78885; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 00:45:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Steven Ji Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: snotty quotes References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 06 Jan 1999 00:45:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: Steven Ji's message of "Sun, 3 Jan 1999 02:00:22 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steven Ji writes: > I recently found this alleged Linus Torvalds quote on someone's sig, while > reading through a Linux mailing list archive. > > 'Ooohh.. "FreeBSD is faster over loopback, when compared to > Linux over the wire". Film at 11.' -Linus I don't see the problem with that quote. As I read it, Linus is dismissing someone who's made an inappropriate comparison of FreeBSD and Linux - of *course* FreeBSD is faster over the loopback than Linux over the wire - but the comparison is meaningless, so Linus is making fun of it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message