History of FOSS and stuff

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Fri Apr 4 14:25:14 EDT 2008


Coleman Kane <cokane at cokane.org> writes:

> Indeed it did. This is one of the predominant reasons why Linux 
> implemented their own TCP/IP stack and filtering, rather than bringing 
> in the widely-accepted-as-superior-at-the-time Berkeley stack and BPF. 

echo $above | sed 's/\(Berkeley\)/(and still) \1/'

Linux's TCP/IP stack still has lots of problems fixed by the Berekely
code many years ago.  And the new OpenBSD pf code is light-years
better than anything Linux has ever had.
-- 
Seeya,
Paul


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