From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jul 1 11:15:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (ip-208.54.117.169.mobilestar.net [208.54.117.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A350637B401 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 11:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.3/8.9.3) id f61H5C000508 for FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 13:05:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 13:05:12 -0400 From: Greg Lehey To: FreeBSD advocacy list Subject: dmr on Linux and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010701130512.A478@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG USENIX is just winding down, and while waiting to leave for the airport I browsed through an interview with Dennis Ritchie in the June issue of Linux Magazine. One part caught my attention: LM: Have you ever looked at the Linux source code? dmr: I haven't looked in a lot of detail. A year and a half ago or so, we ported Inferno to it, and it was somewhat of a pain. Somebody discovered a driver--I guess--some place in the kernel that had some extremely stupid thing going on. It was about then that Ken gave some interview, and he remarked that he didn't think very much of the quality of the code. LM: Did you agree with him? dmr: Well, I haven't really looked at the code, so I really have nothing to say except that [Ken] got enormous amounts of hate mail for being quoted. Of course the quote was really out of context in any event. So not only do I want to avoid that, but I also really had nothing to base this on one way or the other. One thing I do see is that locally--within a 45 second radius of my office, as opposed to other parts of Lucent--people have picked up on FreeBSD. I'm not sure exactly why. There are pleny of Linux fans in Lucent, even though there's a fair amount of corporate pressure to use Windows. (end of quote) I'm not trying to read anything into this quote that isn't there, and it's clear that dmr is trying to avoid upsetting anybody. Still, it's interesting that he mentions FreeBSD exactly in that context. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message