>
> 7. FreeBSD is developed very rapidly. Especially if you subscribe to
> mailing lists, you can see bugs fixed almost as soon as they are
> mentioned. New features are added more conservatively, however. New
> stuff is tried out in -CURRENT, where the heavy-duty FreeBSD hackers
> make it stable, then merge it into -STABLE. The reason Linux became more
> popular than FreeBSD is, as I've read: Linux development is
> helter-skelter--anybody can make changes to the system and redistribute
> them with ease. As a consequence, a wide range of people worked to
> develop the components on your Debian system. This distribution and
> encouragement led to confusion, but also popularity. FreeBSD, on the
> other hand, is maintained by a fixed group of committers. While you can
> still modify your system, it is more difficult to get random changes
> into the main code tree. The result is a more structured and sane
> development process, with an emphasis on stability rather than untested
> additions.
While it's true anyone can make changes to Linux and redistribute them with ease, I
don't see how it's a point of difference. What prevents me from taking a bit of BSD,
changing it and distributing it how I will?
Actually getting a change into a distribution of Linux requires convincing a
Responsible Person that it's a good idea, and that Responsible Person is going to
take care either because his job may be on the line if he gets it wrong, or it's his
pet part of the overall Scheme of Things and he really truly cares about it.
In that regard, I don't see that FreeBSD is a lot different from a distribution.
Remember too that a good deal of the software on BSD is the same as is on linux.
--
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