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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2712 comp.os.linux.misc:19725 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!mrg From: mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green) Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know! Message-ID: <mrg.774688509@dynamo> Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 References: <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu> <newcombe.351.00A6A2B3@aa.csc.peachnet.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 07:15:09 GMT Lines: 50 this is not intended as a flame to any of the authors cited. byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes: >Well Linux is Posix compliant which means it has features of >both SV and BSD but favors SV. to me, you're hinting that netbsd and freebsd are not posix compliant, which is plain wrong. 31khoo@wmich.edu (Patrick Khoo) writes: >Very simple Tim, Anyone and i mean Anyone can work on Linux >development. The development is open and releases are fast >(blazingly fast kernel releases!) As opposed to Free/NetBSD. >As such, a hacker would prefer Linux, where he/she can hack >and get updates fast. just as any thing that goes in to the linux kernel must go past linus first, anything that goes in to the netbsd or freebsd kernel's (or userland..etc) has to go past a member of the core team. i know you can hack yourself - i've had a (small) hack of mine put in the netbsd/sparc kernel. netbsd and freebsd both give you nightly updates to the source tree. how does linux have an `open' development, a `fast' releases, `as opposed to free/netbsd' ? ewt@merengue.unc.edu (Erik Troan) writes: >2) BSD has a crowded namespace. Should you install 386BSD, > FreeBSD, or NetBSD? They're all similiar, they just > happen to be different. There's only one Linux kernel. uh, and sls/mcc/slackware/debian isn't a crowded namespace? what about the people who have a home-grown system? as you say, there is only one linux kernel - and that's all linux is. a kernel. >8) Linux has faster bug fixes. New problems are almost > resolved within 24 hours and the solutions are posted > to the net. this is plain wrong. if you watch the appropriate netbsd mailling lists (and i assume freebsd is the same), you'll notice that this also happens in the `bsd camp' as well. how fast has linux networking been fixed? .mrg.