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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!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.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: <49q9ol$7l@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <30BD2617.23585C28@mcs.net> <49k0dd$pfg@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <49o2n2$t4e@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 19:34:45 GMT Lines: 34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29823 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10106 comp.unix.advocacy:11963 comp.unix.misc:19959 In article <49o2n2$t4e@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu>, BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM <bl03@uwrf.edu> wrote: >: ><shrug> If you maked BSD alpha/beta kernels public you would see the same >results. Where as Linux as a community tends to helpout in debugging >the alpha/beta kernels and can move to newer beta kernels if need be. > They are available as are the source codes... In fact the FreeBSD sources are available on a *daily* basis to anyone. Is that true about Linux??? :-) The only sources that are not available are those that have to be written or worked on using private FreeBSD workstations, otherwise the tree would be chaos. (Please refer to the FreeBSD documentation for supping the -current or -stable trees.) > >Does BSD release a major change per year for kernels and packages? >Linux kernel has a major revision change every year. > About every six months or so. Sometimes a bit longer. Definitely faster than yearly. Opinion: I think that the notion that the FreeBSD core or development team is "elite" really reflects a misunderstanding of the situation. Many of us spend almost ALL of our time on this stuff -- sometimes to the exclusion of more normal social activities. The core team is more of a group of caretakers many of which have areas of signficant contribution (software, documentation, or perhaps marketing.) For example, there is actually quite a bit of freedom that the FreeBSD committers have to modify the kernel... No one person, for example, "holds the kernel hostage". John dyson@freebsd.org