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Article #849Re: P4 vs Athlon for Linux latexing, is gcc-2.95 responsible?
From: Eric P. McCoy
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:50
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:50
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Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> writes: > > > FreeBSD (or so I heard during the Linux BoF headed by Linus T. himself). > > FreeBSD is not a Linux distribution. Also, if Linus said that, he was > > either talking about an unreleased version or he was talking out of > > his ass: > No, I said I *heard* it during the Linux BoF (at USENIX), not that Linus > said it. Ah, so it was a name-dropping non sequitur. Whether Linus or Bill Gates or God Himself said it, though, my point still stands. > It was put forward by one of the FreeBSD developers on the front row (I > couldn't see who it was, because I was back somewhere in the middle of > the audience). > I suppose he knew what he was talking about. He must have been talking about an unreleased version, then. But then, the fact that he's a FreeBSD developer doesn't make him immune from error or misinformation. -- Eric McCoy (reverse "ten.xoc@mpe", mail to "ctr2sprt" is filtered) "Last I checked, it wasn't the power cord for the Clue Generator that was sticking up your ass." - John Novak, rasfwrj
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