Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:04:04 -0400 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Bob Hall <rjhjr@cox.net>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Top behavior differences Message-ID: <20060910220404.GB11266@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20060910155704.GA49622@kongemord.krig.net> References: <20060910125631.GA29818@teddy.fas.com> <20060910155704.GA49622@kongemord.krig.net>
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:57:05AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 08:56:31AM -0400, stan wrote: > > Can someone explain to me why top's handling of multi processor > > status display is different on FreeBSD, than it is on Linux? > > Open source started with the concept of individuals hacking the source > code to get the features they want. The commericial ideal of users paying > for features they want was replaced by the ideal of users doing the work > to create the features they want. Open source has evolved into the > concept of many users getting a free ride as a relatively small number > of open source programmers do the work for them, without pay. > > Possible reasons why open source software X doesn't have feature Y: > -- Long discussion of open source philosophy dleted --- Once upon a time, when people posted on lists like this, they got well reasoned technical answers. The question I was really asking, is if there is a technical reason for this difference (eg difernt sturctures for obatining the information in the 2 OS's). The reason that i feel this is an apropriate place to ask such a question, is that top is NOT a port, but is provided by the base OS in FreeBSD. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
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