Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:24:26 -0600 (CST) From: Joshua Delong Thomas <jdt2101@ksu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Please Refrain? (Used to be Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side!) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0101252321160.29258-100000@unix1.cc.ksu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101260017450.7894-100000@rac3.wam.umd.edu>
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Is there any way we can restrict this to some other listserv? Maybe its just me, but yeah, it was great hearing such sub-par flamage for the 50th or 51st time, but this listserv gets enough traffic on it as it is. This is just a humble request, but its starting to grate on my nerves. -Josh On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > well, I didn't mean for it to be a flame or a holy war, I just wanted to > set the facts straight. > > > ================================================================= > | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | > | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | > | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | > | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | > | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| > ================================================================= > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, SpaZ wrote: > > > ARGGGGGGGHHHAAAAA......... > > > > I guess I can't stop this flame/holy war between bsd-linux linux-windows > > bsd-windows......but I can put in my buck twenty. > > > > Use what is good for you. aka "To each his own" > > > > I use NT, 2000,. and FreeBSD. I have my reasons, why? No of your biz, 2000 > > for my laptop for stability and compatibility at all my clients, NT for > > small office servers, and FreeBSD for my web hosting company. > > > > Why I don't use Linux.....not since college......tooo many changes.... > > > > > > Spaz > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> > > To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> > > Cc: <GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:20 PM > > Subject: Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side! > > > > > > > They didn't reall cut 'n paste.. but used the same ideas... so you can't > > > really exactly just grep through the code, but Linus himself has said that > > > that's where the ideas come from. > > > > > > > > > ================================================================= > > > | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | > > > | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | > > > | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | > > > | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | > > > | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| > > > ================================================================= > > > > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Tim McMillen wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > You know, everybody says this, that Linux uses the FreeBSD tcp/ip stack > > > > and other things, but no one seems to verify it. Has anyone actually > > > > looked into the code? It shouldn't be very hard to grep through the > > > > code and see. If they don't mention the copyright and they use the > > > > code, then that's illegal, and I can't picture them doing that, they're > > > > quite serious about their GPL, and it's implications. > > > > If they didn't actually use any of the code, but instead rewrote > > > > similiar stuff, then they didn't really steal it. At that point that's > > > > no different from any other code that gets shared between the projects. > > > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > On Thursday January 25, 2001 16:45, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > > > > i am on your side just wnated to know how much of FreeBSD > > > > > > networking code is in 2.4? > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure, but I think the BSD networking stuff has been in linux > > > > > since 2.2, I think 2.4 got a lot of FreeBSD's VM stuff. I don't know > > > > > how much of either is there, but I remember reading about it, and > > > > > I've worked in both kernels before and have seen some pretty > > > > > non-superficial similarities in both. > > > > > > > > > > Ken > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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