[NTLUG:Discuss] Better than linux?

Kendall Clark kclark at ntlug.org
Mon Sep 20 18:59:46 CDT 1999


>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Schnoebelen <eric at cirr.com> writes:

    Eric> 	How is this different from the (open|free|net)BSD?
    Eric> Don't forget that much of the original networking code for
    Eric> Linux came from BSD (and I believe that most of the userland
    Eric> networking code is still BSD derived.)

Alan Cox said something recently about the Linux tcp/ip stack having
been totally rewritten from scratch; and, iirc, he denied that it had
ever simply 'come from' *BSD. But I don't remember the details.

What userland networking code do you have in mind?

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