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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!news.inetnebr.com!news.enteract.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@indy.celebration.net> 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: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 15:15:03 -0800 Organization: AT&T Lines: 22 Message-ID: <32F12B77.1422@indy.celebration.net> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5coib1$jvv@cynic.portal.ca> <5cqe32$d22@halon.vggas.com> <32F0C806.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <5cqtq2$mls@cynic.portal.ca> Reply-To: dyson@indy.celebration.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155299 comp.os.linux.networking:66752 comp.os.linux.setup:94731 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2157 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51454 comp.os.os2.advocacy:264560 Curt Sampson wrote: > > In article <32F0C806.167EB0E7@freebsd.org>, > John S. Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >Considering that it > >is a reimplementation (learning from BSDs mistakes).... > > I find it difficult to believe that they `learned from BSD's > mistakes' given that they do so many things in a way that's so > obviously inferior to the BSD stack. I think there are a lot of > improvements that could be made to the BSD stack, but there's no > question that, as it stands, the BSD stack is far more modular and > better written. > Well, being a BSD partisan, I like hearing that, sort of :-). In the best of worlds Linux would have learned from BSDs mistakes, and certainly I would have tried to do better (re: organization, etc.) Alot has happened since the BSD code was written, and you would think that one would learn from history and others experience... John