Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 19:45:06 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lignux - RMS article (pointer fyi) Message-ID: <Mutt.19970107194506.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199701070931.KAA05415@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from Christoph Kukulies on Jan 7, 1997 10:31:17 %2B0100 References: <199701070154.MAA06842@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199701070931.KAA05415@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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According to Christoph Kukulies: > Linux has been participating to a great extent from that fact in the past. > (only to mention the BSD based IP networking in Linux). Not that the ``kernel-side'' of the TCP/IP code inside LInux is *not* BSD derived. They stopped considering taking the code into Linux when USL sued CSRG. User-land code is mostly BSD. Mostly because many programs have different output formats (annoying "feature"). Alan Cox has said enough time that his code was better (no comment). That also means that some "standard" features are not yet implemented in Linux (like sa_len & RTF_STATIC last time I tried to build GateD)... > As a member of the FreeBSD mailing lists I can tell you that > Linus Thorvalds himself is a member of these mailing lists and speaks up > there from time to time. I haven't checked on freefall but I don't think Linus is a subscribing member of the freebsd-* lists. He has been Cc'ed many times but that's all. Same for the BSD newsgroups although he has been seen without a crosspost inside comp.os.linux.*. > I will post a copy of that article later if anyone is interested in > cross reading/augmenting my reply to the magazine. Please take into account the above before sending it to LJ... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #33: Sat Dec 21 12:57:17 CET 1996
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