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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux v FreeBSD Which?
Date: 2 Apr 1997 00:38:02 GMT
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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.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)