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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2718 comp.os.linux.misc:19760 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know! Date: 19 Jul 1994 03:37:27 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 36 Message-ID: <30fhpn$968@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu> <1994Jul18.093302.19670@wmichgw> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <1994Jul18.093302.19670@wmichgw>, Patrick Khoo <31khoo@wmich.edu> wrote: >Very simple Tim, Anyone and i mean Anyone can work on Linux development. And Anyone and I MEAN ANYONE can work on FreeBSD development. You are completely free to do anything you want and post it to the Net, send it to the maintainers, etc... This is *exactly* the same way you are allowed to submit to Linux. If Linux likes it (if the FreeBSD team likes it) it'll go in the next release. If not, you can maintain it and make it better and then give it another shot. Most, if not all of the Linux extensions came into being that way, as did most of the BSD extensions. >The >development is open and releases are fast (blazingly fast kernel releases!) The development for FreeBSD is quite open. Join the mailing list, same as you do for Linux. >As >opposed to Free/NetBSD. As such, a hacker would prefer Linux, where he/she can >hack and get updates fast. If you don't know the story, don't post mis-information. The developemnt is just as open as in Linux, just run by folks who do things differently. Look at the CVS logs on the mailing lists. I've got over a 100MB of gzipeed mail traffic in the last 6 months from the FreeBSD development. :-( Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.