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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 23 Jan 1997 00:03:48 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 54 Message-ID: <5c69t4$fmf@graves.maths.tcd.ie> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c58n9$hcb@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: graves.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:64991 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5595 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1907 j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes: >mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Michael Kagalenko) wrote: >One example that comes up every now and then (and i don't know whether >it's already fixed): the TCP stack chokes if confronted with T/TCP. >Try fingering a Linux machine from a FreeBSD one. I just did (see log below). It seems to work perfectly well. >This is clearly in >violation of the RFCs (which mandate a TCP stack to ignore unknown >options). While some termserver vendors were also guilty about those >problems, they seem to have fixed this fairly quickly. >Sure, all this is heavily a moving target. Today's bugs will be fixed >by tomorrow. Or even yesterday. Ps Linux and FreeBSD are both completely stable. (I use both every day.) For 99% of users it does not matter in the slightest which you use. Almost all comparisons between them are hot air. ======================================= Script started on Wed Jan 22 23:58:29 1997 bash$ finger tim@murphy [birdnest.maths.tcd.ie] Login: tim Name: Timothy Murphy Directory: /user/tim Shell: /bin/bash On since Sat Jan 18 22:26 (GMT) on tty3 21 hours 37 minutes idle On since Sat Jan 18 22:20 (GMT) on tty2 1 day 20 hours idle On since Sat Jan 18 22:11 (GMT) on tty1 1 day 20 hours idle On since Sun Jan 19 01:52 (GMT) on tty4 3 days 19 hours idle On since Tue Jan 21 03:33 (GMT) on ttyp1 from :0.0 10 minutes 39 seconds idle On since Tue Jan 21 03:33 (GMT) on ttyp0 from :0.0 1 second idle Last login Wed Jan 22 18:36 (GMT) on ttyS1 No mail. No Plan. bash$ exit exit Script done on Wed Jan 22 23:58:38 1997 ======================================= -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland