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What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack
jjgm writes "As FreeBSD 5-STABLE approaches, Andre Oppermann has produced a high-level presentation on the changes to the FreeBSD 5.3 network stack. There are many clever tricks for performance and scalability. Amongst other things, Andre claims that FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."
The statistics sample from 2001 over a year was a cheap attempt to minimize Matt's contribution to the project. The reason why he has been mostly silent is probably one of the most prominent signs of his superior maturity. The fact that the official defense (mostly fronted by Greg, atm) he wasn't such a substantial committer is crap, for the most part. If one wanted to go by the stats, Jeff Robertson (sorry if I munged the spelling) would be one of the key committers, and his UMA system isn't even entirely ripe yet, it's just been committed within the sample timeframe. That suddenly phk is at the top of the list, is simple a result of his newest attempt to add another large chunk of bit rot to the project that he can later claim not to have time to maintain "unless someone is willing to pay for my time" (like the atm bits, the half-finished devd monster, et.al.) One can hardly get him to look at his malloc bits, that put his name in lights at some point in the long past.
Matt didn't contribute because he was convinced that that the smp development direction that was chosen (my impression at least from the archives and my fading memory) was overly complex, too complex for the number and talent level of the contributers involved, and that it would delay a release from the -current branch significantly. So he was right. I'll almost bet that that was a constant sore for John, who still hasn't gotten his long-promised, but little delivered re-entrant work done, but he always had time enough to object to any other commits that might help along the way. Strangely Julian and Matt could work together. One might attribute certain commits to both Matt and Julian (if that would matter anyway, since -core is interested in proving the opposite statistically).
If the issue here had anything to do with IPFW, then you all better get out your C-coder hats and take a little more time to fix that rotting pile of muck that has been the standard broken packet filter interface for FreeBSD long past its possible usefulness. A packet filter with no central maintainer which is subject to once yearly random feature bloat through some wild university project from Luigi. The brokenness that Luigi introduced (and the repository bloat through backing out and recommitting, ad absurdum) was probably no less a threat to security than anything Matt did. If the security officer was to be blatantly honest with himself, ipfw would be marked broken for either a full audit or full removal (just port obsd's pf or something that someone actually actively _cares_ about).
You've alienated Jordan, Mike, Bill Paul (for all I can see), Greenman, you constantly rag on Terry, even though he's seen and done more with FreeBSD than most of you, O'Brien is on the verge of quitting (since he, like I, am not convinced that GEOM is anything more than an ego trip that will never be completely maintained or usefully documented). There are certainly others, too, that have attempted to make technically correct contributions, but didn't fit into the sort of paranoid "glee club" that core would like to have around them. You guys lack the talent to steer the positive from Matt into the project and let the crap fall by the wayside. I'm not saying Matt's rants are the most intelligent thing he's done, but he's sat by the wayside and watch the superstars beat up the code to a point where it's less stable, slower, and more bloated than it ever was. I, for one, can understand his frustration (as I can with Mike's, Jordan's, and a few others), altho
*BSD dies in clash with police - source
03 Sep 2004 11:26:18 GMT
Source: Reuters
RIYADH, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Saudi security forces killed the *BSD operating system in a gunbattle on Friday, as the kingdom continued its crackdown on dead OSs, a security source said.
The clash took place outside the central town of Buraida, the scene of a shootout with *BSD in which a policeman was killed on Thursday, the source told Reuters.
*BSD has waged a 15-month campaign of bombings and shootings aimed at Linux, Windows, and the technology industry. Around 90 programmers and civilians, many of them foreigners, have been killed.
Earlier in the week, officials announced that a *BSD militant -- involved in an attack which had set up 20 unstable servers in production capacities -- had surrendered.
The militant was wanted for setting up a poor-performing webserver with a single CPU in the city of Khobar.
Why was this modded down?
Because some moderators just can't be bothered to read the guidelines.
"Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting...Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down."
Personally, I very rarely mod things down. This is because I know a lot of people read slashdot with a +3 (or higher) filter just to wipe away the crap.
And it's also really annoying to get modded down for a heartfelt genuine comment...
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I really don't think so, dude... mods got it right this time.
If you can't get the difference between being facetious and spreading FUD, I'm sorry for you, really.
You're an idiot. This "FUD" is obviously facetious. hence the quotes around "dead" -- showing that it was someone else's word and not his/hers. Hint: Look at my usage of the word "FUD". No wonder you posted AC.
Congratulations to all the hard-working anti-*BSD trolls who have again successfully filled this non-story with mighty trolling attacks.
A full 25% of the posts in this non-story are trolls and idiot YHBTs responding to us! Nice going, and let's go for 30% on the next non-story.
Eventually, Taco will realise that future *BSD postings are futile and that if *BSD isn't dead, it's close enough that it isn't worth Slashdot's time.
Yeah, Linux is going right down the tubes; IBM's recent bankruptcy is evidence.
Meanwhile, Apple isn't in the middle of dumping *BSD for Linux (ahem ahem) or anything (ahem ahem) so *BSD isn't dying.