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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 3 Dec 1995 23:19:51 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 49 Distribution: comp Message-ID: <49tban$978@times.tfs.com> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49smvs$8gd@josie.abo.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29041 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9727 comp.unix.advocacy:11669 In article <49smvs$8gd@josie.abo.fi>, Mats Andtbacka <mandtbac@abo.fi> wrote: >on ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/v1.$VERSION >where $VERSION is in [0-3]; 3, at the moment. New patches come out >whenever Linus releases them, which can be daily to biweekly. > [...] > >Am I correct to think that the FreeBSD "equivalent", this CVS or >whatever you called it, can't be _read_ except by a small core team? >Whatever for? Keeping people from making their own changes and writing >to it I can see, but...? no the FreeBSD equivalent is ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/.... (or one of it's mirrors).. It get's updated every (4?) hours or so.. In ADDITION to this you can subscribe using either the CTM or SUP (two updating protocols) and have any changes to the tree deliverd to you (via tcp or email) on a daily basis. CVS is a source-code revision tracking system, and simply represents the way that the revisions of code are archived within the FreeBSD group. > >Out of interest, what happens if I develop something completely new >for FreeBSD, some driver never seen before; with Linux, I could just >proclaim myself its developer/maintainer, send it to Linus and hope >it gets into the kernel. Who approves new stuff into FreeBSD? You do exactly the same. you sent it to core@freebsd.org, or "the patches alias that I forget the name of right now"@freebsd.org (patches?) and declare youself it's developer/maintainer.. If you ACTIVELY maintain it i.e. a patch every few days.. you'll probably get given commit privs on the source tree so that you don't have to bug people to commit the latest "foo" patch.. > +----------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / On assignment | / \ julian@tfs.com +------>x USA \ in a very strange | ( OZ ) 300 lakeside Dr. oakland CA. \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ USA+(510) 645-3137(wk) \_/ \\ ><DARWIN> v LL LL