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From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy
Date: 4 Dec 1995 15:41:53 GMT
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Julian Elischer, in <49tban$978@times.tfs.com>:
>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.
[...]
>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..
Then this aspect of the various free Unices seems to me nearly
identical. Linux's source tree doesn't get updated as often, but then,
given the differences in developing models, it doesn't strictly need
to.
[...]
>>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..
As usual, it seems the hottest flamewars have arisen between the
groups with greatest similarities...
>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..
...The difference here seems to be mostly that Linus has more "central
authority" over the coordination of the development than exists in the
*BSD world. Ah well, our system has worked fine for us so far, yours
for you people; it's the results that count, after all.
--
" ... got to contaminate to alleviate this loneliness
i now know the depths i reach are limitless... "
-- nin