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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
By author:    Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>
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.

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