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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news-peer.nctu.edu.tw!news.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: 3 Feb 1997 17:59:42 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5d592e$kti@helena.MT.net> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5crl0r$n1@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5ctu9d$rt7@cynic.portal.ca> <5d15ma$pam@lynx.dac.neu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:154771 comp.os.linux.networking:66441 comp.os.linux.setup:94333 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2076 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51225 comp.os.os2.advocacy:264044 [ Emailed and posted ] In article <5d15ma$pam@lynx.dac.neu.edu>, Michael Kagalenko <mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote: >Curt Sampson (cjs@cynic.portal.ca) wrote in article <5ctu9d$rt7@cynic.portal.ca> <pre><blink> >]In article <5crl0r$n1@lynx.dac.neu.edu>, >]> No, it's not like that. There is nothing wildly implausible about >]> saying that Linux networking is as good as BSD's >] >]Indeed. There are no data at all that support you, > > You said so - it must be true. There is ample data that Linux networking code *was* inferior to the BSD code-base. It is therefore now in the hands of the Linux netorking gurus to *prove* those assumption are no longer true. Once something has been shown to be true, the burden of proof is upon them to prove that it is no longer the case. Simply claiming 'we fixed bugs, it's better now' without proof is incomplete. The linux networking stack was proven to be inferior in *many* ways. Prove to me that it's better, else I will assume it's still inferior. Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations work #: (406) 457-9000 | nate@trout.mt.sri.com | An unfeatured document is a bug. home #: (406) 443-7063 | - John Polstra