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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: 14 Jul 1996 08:59:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4sactc$fd5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4rqcsk$ff8@fido.asd.sgi.com> <4rql4p$39f@innocence.interface-business.de> <4rrimn$dro@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E16DB5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4rtvpf$7e5@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E73BCA.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <4s7jsd$blf@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E7B8A5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s8rtp$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:55402 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23534 lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) wrote: > I am certainly biased in > that I prefer to work with Linus & Co, simply because I never get into > this sort of waste of time. Mind you, we are only getting into this waste of time due to (mostly) silly discussions in Usenet. Well, and we are not as much discussing with the *BSD folks there... So if you come for 5 minutes to ``this side of the fence'', your argumentation looks very reasonable as well -- just with the roles exchanged. ;-) > I feel that it is self defeating > to have BSDI, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and 386BSD out there. I feel that it is self defeating to have twenty-five different Linuxes around. :) (I mean complete systems here, not only kernels.) C'mon. The BSD camps are not that scattered as you would make us believe. 386BSD is dead (and has been created for a totally different purpose, that's why its `father' apparently went away), and BSDi is a commercial enterprise that would hardly find a full counterpart in the Linux camp. This leaves three of your 5 `mainstreams', where OpenBSD and NetBSD are indeed a result of some sad personality conflicts. The original roots of the NetBSD and FreeBSD streams are certainly also personality-affected, but these days, there's mainly a different enough focus between both `camps' that allows for a useful and peaceful coexistance, including co-operation. There's perhaps more co-operation than you think there were... (though not as much as one would wish there were). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)