Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:48:07 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20040217234807.GK717@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20040217230130.GA51332@hal9000.halplant.com> References: <200402140220.i1E2KTR03950@eth1.ssl.sonic.net> <20040214041011.GA10679@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040217230130.GA51332@hal9000.halplant.com>
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--3XA6nns4nE4KvaS/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 06:01:30PM -0500, Andrew J Caines wrote: > Kris Kennaway said... > > The null program has been ported to every OS and architecture that has > > or will ever be produced. >=20 > FreeBSD's null implementation has been shown in several independent > benchmark tests to run faster than all other tested platforms and fully > supports the null specification. >=20 > The Linux null implementation run under emulation has been reported to > run faster than the native version on similar hardware, however these > reports have not been well substantiated and have been vigorously > challenged by a number of Anonymous Cowards. >=20 > Microsoft have recently announced that they will be the first to bring > null technology to the computing world with the first release of MS > Nothing version 8.0 SP6, available in early 2010 for whatever they are > calling the latest tarted up version of Windows at the time. License terms > have not been disclosed, but have been unofficially reported to be as > little as one soul per seat. >=20 > SCO has filed suit in California against various orphans, humanitarian > charities, homeless persons and the deceased for the infringement of their > UNIX[TM] System V[TM] Null technology intellectual property, obtained from > Caldera, obtained from obtained from Novell, [...], obtained from BSD. SCO > CEO issued a press statement saying "I am taking my null and going home". There's also a freely available implementation from Bernard Belanger, but at 1 byte it's fricking bloatware: http://www.bernardbelanger.com/computing/NaDa/ Ceri --=20 --3XA6nns4nE4KvaS/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAMqg2ocfcwTS3JF8RAj0ZAJ4onP9JA+HGM/tzC8MvBPwLyYE3KQCgqGDZ hXBbhAcY0PIB4N07ED4aEy0= =BrYS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3XA6nns4nE4KvaS/--
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