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From: jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 2 Feb 1997 12:32:28 GMT
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In article <32F3810D.237C228A@freebsd.org>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>it's also largely the same code. We (the 3 groups) also read one
>another's PR databases and share MANY of the same bug fixes. I don't
>necessarily see that degree of cross-pollination happening in the Linux
>camps, for example.
That may be true. The various Linux distributions differ greatly in
organization, support for and type of packaging.
>Does Debian benefit from Red Hat's customer bug reports?
I think one should distinguish between distribution specific bugs
("permissions on /usr/sbin/sendmail wrong") and bugs that are present in
the original, non-packaged software. With Debian and Red Hat, bugs of
the latter kind, are forwarded to the upstream maintainers (with fixes
if found). Check out http://www.debian.org/Bugs/, and look for forwarded
bugs.
>How about Slackware?
Slackware is dying. It is being killed by its basic premise of a
distribution maintained by one person. With each new release of
Slackware, new bugs are introduced that at best are fixed half a year
later, and hordes of users turn to up-to-date, well-organized
distributions in which bugs get fixed. Slackware is about as relevant to
Linux nowadays than 386BSD is for FreeBSD: it is a thing of the past.
Ray
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