From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 25 11:05:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B87D16A4B3 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20D4443F3F for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:05:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 58704 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2003 18:05:04 -0000 Received: from niwun.pair.com (HELO localhost) (209.68.2.70) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 2003 18:05:04 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.70 Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:05:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: John-Mark Gurney In-Reply-To: <20031025175948.GF683@funkthat.com> Message-ID: <20031025130326.T2023@odysseus.silby.com> References: <200310230143.32244.wes@softweyr.com> <20031025175948.GF683@funkthat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: Kip Macy Subject: Re: FreeBSD mail list etiquette X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:05:07 -0000 On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > And patches (against FreeBSD) are highly encouraged. It rarely helps > to simply point out flaws (or showing how X OS runs soo much better than > FreeBSD, why are you guys even running FreeBSD?) w/o showing code to fix it. > > -- > John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 Heck, I'd be happy if working benchmark programs were provided. A big chunk of figuring out bugs / performance problems always seems to be setting up the right conditions for the problem to be recreated. Mike "Silby" Silbersack