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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!fizban.solace.mh.se!vampire.xinit.se!newsfeed.tip.net!news.seinf.abb.se!nooft.abb.no!Norway.EU.net!dolphin.no!ev From: ev@dolphin.no (Erik Vasaasen) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 5 Dec 1995 11:32:50 GMT Organization: Telenor Dolphin Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4a1al2$k3v@oslo-nntp.eunet.no> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49osrd$ptg@times.tfs.com> <49pb5g$di8@agate.berkeley.edu> <49s93l$a6@dyson.iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.dolphin.no Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29931 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10178 comp.unix.advocacy:12017 comp.unix.misc:19994 In article <49s93l$a6@dyson.iquest.net>, John S. Dyson <root@dyson.iquest.net> wrote: > >If the big Linux suppliers would make their daily source trees available, then >is the Linux kernel available for daily update??? Linus owns >Linux and through his generosity, you can use it -- isn't that nice of him?. > sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/slackware-source-mirror is a mirror of the entire _release_ source tree for one of the more popular linux distributions. It doesn't get updated daily, but I for one wouldn't really want a snapshot of a source that is changing all the time for everything, not just kernel, libc, utilities etc. one at a time. (Yes, I know that there are freezes in *bsd too.) Erik