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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12252 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3137 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex!constellation!rex!ben From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Message-ID: <CuCsoz.9Cr@rex.uokhsc.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 04:34:10 GMT Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu References: <Cu107E.Mz3@curia.ucc.ie> <Cu8CBr.Fx@calcite.rhyolite.com> <328d6v$s0p@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <CuACx4.Etu@rex.uokhsc.edu> <328ttu$4la@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma Lines: 30 cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Craig Metz) writes: >In article <CuACx4.Etu@rex.uokhsc.edu>, >Benjamin Z. Goldsteen <benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu> wrote: >>No problem: just state what didn't work about the old version and how >>the new version fixes the problem. Why didn't Linux just take the UofG >>NFS code and run with it? >>The Linux group should have just imported the UofG NFS code and look >>for something else to do; a superior replacement to NFS would be nice >>(with a license such that any UNIX vendor could implement it without >>having to make their entire kernel public). > Why didn't *you* implement the UofG code for Linux? Because I never ran Linux for more than a few weeks at a time? > Have you ever actually looked at the kernel interfaces? > It's really easy to go around telling the world what should be done. >It's quite another matter to get up and do it. If it's so easy and so far >superior, you'll make a name for yourself in the Linux community and advance >the status quo. Go for it. No one said it would easy! What was said that the Linux community could have started from the existing NFS implementation and put less effort into it and gotten a better product. -- Benjamin Z. Goldsteen