From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 24 08:55:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20049 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 08:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20044 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 08:55:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id JAA16141; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 09:55:13 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981024095232.0676e290@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: brett@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 09:54:57 -0600 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: http://www.performance-computing.com/features/9810of1.shtml In-Reply-To: <3927.909217631.1@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:27 AM 10/24/98 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >I'm all for competetive >comparisions with Linux or I wouldn't have written the article in the >first place, but showing a daemon outright skewering a penguin with >his pitchfork only incites the basest of emotions in many readers and >casts doubt over the entire article. If the author is willing to >stoop to cheap tactics like going after the opposition's mascot, the >logic goes, then the content must not be any better. I dunno, Jordan. I hear FreeBSD skewered (at least verbally) by the Penguin Hordes virtually every time I so much as mention that our local community network uses it. Maybe fair is fair. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message