Torvalds Has Harsh Words For FreeBSD Devs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday April 21, 2006 @05:03AM from the end-of-the-week-frustrations dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a relatively technical discussion about the merits of Copy On Write (COW) versus a very new Linux kernel system call named vmsplice(), Linux creator Linus Torvalds had some harsh words for Mach and FreeBSD developers that utilize COW: 'I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside than VM games, and bigger caches will only continue to drive that point home.' The discussion goes on to explain how the new vmsplice() avoids this extra overhead."

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Debian GNU/kFreeBSD by Douglas+Simmons · 2006-04-21 05:05 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Development-wise, how much is Debian's FreeBSD port from Debian versus FreeBSD? Or are its advancements in tandem with both projects. And does either half suffer from the combination of the other?