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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!jussieu.fr!oleane!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <49s8d8$96@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49pb5g$di8@agate.berkeley.edu> <87rayn8ion.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> <49qa85$q80@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:23:52 GMT Lines: 36 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29001 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9704 comp.unix.advocacy:11650 comp.unix.misc:19779 In article <49qa85$q80@agate.berkeley.edu>, Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >In article <87rayn8ion.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com>, >Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com> wrote: >>FreeBSD makes the latest sources available via SUP. No, I personally >>can't check things out of the CVS tree. I don't know of any single >>CVS tree that defines the Linux kernel (or userland, for that matter). > >If you reread the articles I posted, you'll find that >cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer), a member of the >"BSD User Group Hamburg", was complaining about lack of access to the >changes in FreeBSD. If a BSD user group member is complaining about >lack of access, can you imagine a common joe like you or I getting >access to it? > No problem, once and for all: daily current source: ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current daily stable-2.1.X source: ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable If you want, I can even tell you how to get sup updates automatically!!! So many times, problems such as this are a matter of not knowing, and it is good to understand before taking on a cause that is not existant. The sup info is in the FreeBSD documentation. Regarding the CVS tree, there are some issues that are difficult to resolve, but at least FreeBSD/NetBSD has coherent source code control management!!! Since 58 people from all over the world have CVS access, isn't that pretty darn open??? -- how many people can make a commit to the Linux kernel for example??? (It doesn't answer the question to say that you can edit your own copy :-)). Take care :-) John dyson@freebsd.org