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From: Rik van Riel <riel@humbolt.geo.uu.nl>
To: JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Need ammo against BSD Fud
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:29:30 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909191427000.22068-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199909172159.XAA01101@agnes.faerie.monroyaume>

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, JF Martinez wrote:

> BSD people are writing tons of articles saying how superior BSD is
> respective to Linux.  There is a danger they will impregnate
> people with the idea: Linux=second rate system.

The BSD VM system _is_ better than the Linux one, but AFAIK
that's about the only part where we lag in such a way that
people can actually notice a difference.

I think it's time to stop the advocacy and start the design
of a better Linux VM system. The first part would be a real
zoned memory allocator. More in my next mail...

Rik
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-09-19 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-17 21:59 JF Martinez
1999-09-18  2:53 ` Neil A. Carson
1999-09-18 20:22   ` JF Martinez
1999-09-18 11:57 ` Ralf Baechle
1999-09-19 12:29 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
1999-09-19 15:13   ` James Simmons
1999-09-21 20:53   ` SV: " Hans Eric Sandström 
1999-09-25 14:27     ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-09-25 16:28       ` James Simmons
1999-09-25 19:05         ` David Mentr'e

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