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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2374 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:56:36 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!yale!gumby!destroyer!fmsrl7!lynx.unm.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: BSD or Linux? Message-ID: <1993Feb28.022146.25572@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1993Feb26.192438.9988@coe.montana.edu> <1moc6oINN9dr@ftp.UU.NET> <1993Feb28.004846.12072@coe.montana.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1993 02:21:46 GMT Lines: 40 In article <1993Feb28.004846.12072@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <1moc6oINN9dr@ftp.UU.NET> sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: >>In article <1993Feb26.192438.9988@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >>>You want stability, get BSD. Stability implies that things don't >>>change. Linux is far from this. >> >>As opposed to 386bsd? The only reason 386bsd isn't changing as much as >>Linux is because the principal author is too busy working on radical changes >>for the next version -- while Linux only changes a little bit from version to >>version, largely to fix bugs or add features people want/need. > People are changing 386bsd, some are not sharing their work with the net at large. this has it good and bad points. At Bill's last talk it was stated that people are sending him kernel changes and suggestions, for sure some were never posted to the net. Hopefully, comp.os.386bsd.development will help alleviate this problem. So if someone post a suggestion, I suggest working with those willing to create ideas. Comments like: "this is ugly or the problem is difficult" are not technical (no offense intended here just wanted to make a point) :-) Many of Bill's articles in DDJ were guidelines as to what he would like to see in 386bsd. As for waiting for Bill to finish his release and functional changes, the patchkit is an example that we don't have to wait for Bill to release a kernel to change it. True, the patchkit had its problems but we all learn along the way. As for our own group, we suffer tremendously from BSDism. Cheers, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming