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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.cloud9.net!cloud9.net!tls From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD's strengths Date: 23 Aug 1995 09:05:04 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA Lines: 33 Message-ID: <41er00$s0d@news.cloud9.net> References: <40t97j$4rp@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> <40u0ar$jhf@sundog.tiac.net> <4197o1$gia@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <41cl4t$1tb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:18033 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4990 In article <41cl4t$1tb@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: > >>>There seems to be a group moderating kernel changes instead of a person. >> >> A FreeBSD core team exists to approve and commit changes to all >>aspects of the source tree, not just the kernel. > >Well Brian, to set this straight: there are currently 15 members of >the core team, but the list of commiters is beyond 50. The core team >wouldn't have a single minute available if they had to approve and >commit every single change. (It worked this way at the very beginning >of the project, but this scenario soon proved to be unusable.) For perspective, the NetBSD core team size hovers around 5 people most of the time. And they _do_ have to approve all changes to machine-independent kernel code. CSRG at Berkeley was never more than six or seven, if I'm not mistaken. There are many ways to skin a cat. Linux represents one end of the spectrum, with almost no version control, kernels slapped together seemingly as an afterthought from the almost independent work of many people, and no standard set of user-land programs. NetBSD and CSRG BSD are the other end, with careful design and a small group of core developers enforcing a style and single set of standards on the entire work. FreeBSD is somewhere in the middle, it seems. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@cloud9.net Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash. --Bo Diddley