[time-nuts] Linux time servers

[Randy Scott]

Is there any consensus for the reasons why Linux performs poorly?  I was thinking about setting up a server as well (possibly using a little ARM-based single-board computer that runs Linux).

Randy.
 

--- On Thu, 5/14/09, Robert Darlington <rdarlington at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Darlington <rdarlington at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Linux time servers
> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com>
> Date: Thursday, May 14, 2009, 4:23 PM
> RedHat in the 90s was terrible. 
> It's much better now.
> 
> Last thing I read about ntp was that it was kind of broken
> for high
> precision stuff on Linux and people tend to use
> FreeBSD.  I duplicated the
> work of one of the time-nuts by following his site here:
> 
> http://www.febo.com/pages/soekris/
> 
> Even with all of the details there it still required a
> great effort on my
> part to get things up and running to where I have them
> now.  If you decide
> to go this route I will be more than happy to send you a
> copy of the image
> on my CF card so that you'll have a working system out of
> the box.  I had to
> recompile ntp because the current FreeBSD distro didn't
> have support for
> something (NMEA I think, of all things!).
> 
> -Bob
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Dave Ackrill <dave.g0dja at tiscali.co.uk>wrote:
> 
> > Anyone got any good Linux time systems for PCs ?
> >
> > I now have a PC on my home system that has Linux
> fedora on it and I'm keen
> > to learn how to make it a useful new member of my
> network.
> >
> > I did dabble with Redhat Linux once before in the
> 1990s, and still have the
> > scars to show for it, so please don't assume that I
> know what I'm doing...
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dave (G0DJA)
> >
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