From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 2 14:46:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp7.atl.mindspring.net (smtp7.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.128.51]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 204F041D4 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:46:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from wghicks.mindspring.com (user-33qtgkk.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.194.148]) by smtp7.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA26208; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:46:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from wghicks.mindspring.com (IDENT:jhix@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA20615; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:49:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhix@wghicks.mindspring.com) Message-Id: <200002022249.OAA20615@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Michael Bacarella Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:36:46 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 14:49:10 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > What sort of quality-control measures does Slackware have? Where > > do I access their cvs tree? Where do I access their problem reports? > > Where do I subscribe to get every commit message? How long are > > their code freezes? How many committers do they have? What > > mechanism creates their releases? Where do I get release-candidates? > > Hmmm. my face is red. > > These aren't quite technical limitations as they are political ones. [snip] Not having an orderly development process has caused quite a few technical limitations for Linux. Not having any sort of standardized and reproducible release process is notable; lack of version control is one of the more serious problems I have with Linux. Not really political, but (dis)organizational To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message