From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 18 13:40:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BDD337B992 for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 13:40:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA18994; Thu, 18 May 2000 22:39:28 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 22:39:28 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Terry Lambert Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , Rahul Siddharthan , Anatoly Vorobey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Salon article on BSD In-Reply-To: <200005182032.NAA21198@usr08.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 18 May 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Well, whatever suits him -- and linux has improved phenomenally in the > > > > last 3 years, ie since its 1.2 days, so he must be doing something > > > > right. One can't say what *would* have happened if he'd done things > > > > differently. > > > > > > If he had adopted a constraining tool like CVS, Linux would have > > > forked on no less than 3 (mathematically) documentable occasions. > > > > What do you mean by "constraining"? > > It constrains you to a single line of developement. For example, > if FreeBSD wanted to work on a PPC port, there is a single line of > developement called "current". The work could not occur in the > "current" source tree, since it would be unacceptable to those > who hold the keys, who are people not using PPCs, by definition. > Like the Alpha port, it would have to occur in a vacuum, when the > current tree was relatively quiescent, and be followed by the risk > of non-apporval, and the requirement of a heroic integration > effort (such as we saw on the part of the Alpha team). > Actually, I think there have through time been some special branches like say for CAM? > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message