Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:26:43 -0800 (PST) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: NTP dumps Linux, film at 11. [Fwd/FYI] |
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Kris Karas wrote: > > I thought I would forward a piece of mail to you from one of the NTP > developers. Linux has fallen from grace in their eyes (which you > perhaps already know). They are actively suggesting that people who > need to use time synchronization (NTP) switch to using freebsd.
This is nothing new. I suspect the problem is that the NTP people themselves use BSD, and thus they were never very interested in supporting Linux in the first place. So it's not a "fallen from grace" thing, it's a "that's how it has been".
And the problem has led to me sometimes getting conflicting patches for the kernel side, which in turn hasn't really helped - I have no idea _which_ patch to trust, so usually it has been either random choice or me ignoring all patches simply because I have no way to make a semi- intelligent choice.
What we need is simply some Linux person who knows and cares about NTP, nothing more. It's unrealistic to assume that BSD people could maintain ntpd with Linux support without anybody in the Linux camp being willing to stand up for the Linux part.
So while there probably is some amount of BSD bigotry there, I can certainly also understand why they don't like to support Linux.
Linus
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