From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 23:40:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E82F616A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:40:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BB743D31 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:40:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.21] (rat.samsco.home [192.168.254.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2SNiADZ001016; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:44:16 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <42489555.6090304@samsco.org> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:37:57 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050321 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mohamed aslan References: <319cceca0503281001792baf39@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <319cceca0503281001792baf39@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: organization X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:40:18 -0000 mohamed aslan wrote: > hi guys > it's my first post here, BTW i was a linux hacker and linux kernel > mailing list member for 3 years. > > and i've a comment here , i think the freebsd kernel source files > aren't well organized as linux ones. I left a job last year where I developed linux kernel code professionally for almost 5 years. When I first looked at the linux tree, it took some time to get used to how it was layed out, but eventually it came naturally to my fingers. I've also used and developed *BSD kernel code for 12 years, so I know that layout too. And now I'm getting my hands dirty in the OSX/Darwin sources. To tell you the truth, it doesn't make a difference either way. If your concern with a software project is how the source tree is layed out, then I highly doubt we'll be seeing much contribution from you. Thanks. Scott