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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!overload.lbl.gov!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 18:36:31 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 26 Message-ID: <30C10D2F.4E81D442@FreeBSD.org> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49osrd$ptg@times.tfs.com> <49pb5g$di8@agate.berkeley.edu> <87rayn8ion.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> <49qa85$q80@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29826 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10111 comp.unix.advocacy:11968 comp.unix.misc:19961 Nick Kralevich wrote: > 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? This is simply ridiculous. Read Julian Elischer's posting. Do you see that *current up to the hour* sources are available to all, via both SUP (for the network endowed) and CTM (for the email-only)? We also make change log information available on the mailing lists, to which anyone can subscribe, and the *one* little thing that people are flapping about so much here is CVS repository access, something that's not even AVAILABLE for Linux! There's no central repository available for Slacware or Red Hat, and most of those folks don't even USE source code control! So forgive me if it strikes me as more than a little unfair to be assailed as not being "open" enough because whereas Linux provides you with a box of cake mix and a fork, we only provide the cake, the icing, the candles but *no chocolate sprinkles*! Gawd, we should all be shot or something! :-) -- Jordan