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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:23:05 -0500
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tangent for discussion: FreeBSD performs worse that Linux
Message-ID:  <20011211162304.A39837@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011211150459.A8415@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 03:04:59PM -0600
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 03:04:59PM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> I am rather hoping there's a bunch of packrats lurking in hacker@ that might
> mail me their backports. It'd make a better initial impression.

Let me disabuse you of that notion right now.  You're it.  Most people
in -hackers fall into two groups:

1) track -stable
2) track -current

You're it.  Congrats.  Put up what you've got.

> Only if I get BSD daemon badges for my machines, a BSD sweatshirt or cap,
> and an "@freebsd.org" mail addy. :-)

Nope.  Just an @freebsd.org mail addy and a coupon for economy-size
Maalox.  Sorry.  Put up what you've got.

> For those that're interested (and have the time), it's at
>     http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/freebsd-backports.html
> for review/critique. It's only a WIP at this point; please don't do anything
> to publicize it. I'll mail hackers@ again when it's done, for final review/
> critique.

Oh.  Well, okay, you put up what you got.

<poke at site>

Good start, now let's get some patches up there.  :)

-- 
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

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