On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ken Ambrose wrote: > Indeed. But this has held true for ages. Go read the 1.x ethernet notes > on the 3c501 ethernet card ...
Okay, this is starting to get ridiculous, but as far as *that* goes, the 3C501 was shunned not because of the kernel driver, but because it was a lump of sh*t. We're talking an 8-bit programmed I/O Ethernet card with a *SINGLE*, *SHARED* TX/RX buffer. It was designed to receive data at the rate a PC-XT could transmit it, and got overwhelmed for just about anything else. > Ask me how I felt when XFree86 4.0 dropped support for my spiffy > SGI flatpanel digital display video card... Which begs the question: Then why did you run XFree 4.0? :-) > ... rather the fact that for the vast majority of users, it's likely to > be pretty much as stable as 2.2... Perhaps the new VM will help in that department, but prior to the new VM, I can say that 2.4 was *not* suitable for the vast majority of users. It would randomly go into swap storms that left the system unusable for minutes at a time. > ... 2.4 has some pretty nifty features, to boot. As near as I can tell, the only legitimately useful feature is the better firewalling code. > If you want a kernel that takes better advantage of multi-processor > hardware ... The "vast majority of users" have an eight CPU box? ;-) > ... larger filesizes ... The "vast majority of users" have single files larger than 2 GB? ;-) > ... in-kernel HTTP server of static pages ... Oh, come on. The only reason *that* was put in was to increase benchmark scores. If I wanted crap like that, I'd run NT. :-) > ... a somewhat flakier VM ... Not that anyone uses the memory manager anyway. ;-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
