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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
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 15:09:16 +0200
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31khoo@wmich.edu (Patrick Khoo) writes:
>Very simple Tim, Anyone and i mean Anyone can work on Linux development. The
>development is open and releases are fast (blazingly fast kernel releases!) As
>opposed to Free/NetBSD. As such, a hacker would prefer Linux, where he/she can
>hack and get updates fast.
Oh no, i won't continue contributing to this free-of-sense endless
LSD vs. Binux discussions here, but...
At least *this* one is incorrect. The FreeBSD (i can only speak for
them) development is open for everybody, too. The difference is that
it's running in mailing lists, not in the Usenet. But the mailing
lists are open for everyone, and their contents is ftp-able (though it
might be very dull for outside souls to follow the discussions from
two weeks ago). If you like *stable* systems, you would prefer running
the official releases, which undergo a full alpha/beta(/gamma...)
release cycle in order to ensure they are of good quality. If you like
to get the hack-of-the-week, you can also sup the -current system.
(I usually go a way between them.)
The main point in favour of the BSD development is, BSD is more than a
kernel only, the BSD teams do also maintain the system utilities
within the same source tree as they maintain the kernel.
That's been my last posting in this thread, promised. :-)
--
cheers, J"org work: joerg_wunsch@tcd-dresden.de
private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de
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