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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!worldnet.att.net!news.dra.com!news.he.net!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux v FreeBSD Which? Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 08:31:14 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 20 Message-ID: <33425FA2.2781E494@freebsd.org> References: <859744742.6285.0@isotoxin.demon.co.uk> <87g1xccy6p.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <5hs9pa$kja@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38539 J Wunsch wrote: > > Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > FreeBSD's ease partially comes from the fact that indeed there exists > > only one distribution. The core team that develops and maintains > > FreeBSD ... > > Well, to prevent miscomprehension: that's _all developers_, not just > the core team. The core team is mainly there for ``political'' > decisions etc. There are currently more than 70 or 80 active > developers (committers), and quite a number of other contributors. > I'd like to chime in and say that those 70 or so developers have the authorization to make changes directly into the offical CVS tree. We also have lots of additional developers and contributors. John