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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next prev 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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