From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 14 20:18:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA91C14BB8; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:18:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27722; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:17:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd027703; Wed Jul 14 20:17:14 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA14817; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:17:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199907150317.UAA14817@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 03:17:13 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <378D1283.1DC90AE2@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at Jul 14, 99 04:43:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > And, by the way, Linux doesn't have a CVS tree, or any other sort of source > control system. They have Linus' home machine, and (hopefully) some > backups somewhere. Great way to run a development program. Wrong. They have Larry McVoy's "BitKeeper", which addresses a number of the issues that result in the emergent property of forking in the BSD distributions deriving from the BSD distributions use of CVS. Bitkeeper is now publically available, so long as your change log (not including source, -- just comments) is visible on the web (or you buy a license). See http://www.bitkeeper.com/bk12.html for details. 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-advocacy" in the body of the message