×××× ××××× 21 ××××× 2003, 19:41, ×××× ×× ××× Shlomi Fish: > > > Is the situation considerably better in x86-based BSD systems? > > > > Not AFAIK. marginly better I mightsay. > > Hmmm... so it's not as much a problem of Linux as it is the problem of the > wacky i386 architecture. And since Linux has to run there,
I think that it can be done better, as 2.6 proves - or tries to at least: I have no real experience with that as I haven't been running 2.6 long enough, but the architecture looks so much better. And I think you can do even better then that. > > No. never meant to say anything bad about the people working on Linux, > > but you have to agree that if Linux had not existed, HURD would have had > > many more developers, may be even to the point that it would have been > > usable about now. > > And in the meantime everyone would have used a BSD clone... ;-) I feel your pain.. > I'm not a great believer in the concentration of effort/"let's have just > one alternative" belief. The existence of KDE does not necessarily makes > GNOME progress any slower. (and vice versa). And so, I'm not sure the rise > of Linux has slowed down the Hurd considerably. point taken. -- Oded ::.. I've never been canoeing before, but I imagine there must be just a few simple heuristics you have to remember... Yes, don't fall out, and don't hit rocks. ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
