From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 14:29:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Need ammo against BSD Fud In-Reply-To: <199909172159.XAA01101@agnes.faerie.monroyaume> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: JF Martinez Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength. -- work at: http://www.reseau.nl/ home at: http://www.nl.linux.org/~riel/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/