Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-48,: Re: NTP dumps Linux, film at 11. [Fwd/FYI]

# Re: NTP dumps Linux, film at 11. [Fwd/FYI]

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
30 Nov 1998 22:20:03 GMT

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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981130091933.16153F-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
>

We have such a person, but unfortunately he has been on the 2.0.x branch
for "disk space reasons". This has meant his changes haven't been
integrated in the forward-moving branch of the kernel.

I guess if you want NTP to work well on Linux and are willing to put
some $$$ into it, send Ulrich Windl a nice, large hard disk.

-hpa

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