From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 4 8:45:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C56614D57 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 08:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA27841; Tue, 4 May 1999 08:45:34 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd027773; Tue May 4 08:45:31 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA04208; Tue, 4 May 1999 08:45:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199905041545.IAA04208@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Why is Linux Successful? - An Opinion. To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:45:37 +0000 (GMT) Cc: paul@originative.co.uk, dg@root.com, junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <372DC738.D316BCAC@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at May 3, 99 09:56:40 am 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 > Many of the untruths are about Linux, not FreeBSD. The idea that anyone > can put code into Linux, for instance. Go back and read the interview > with Alan Cox at Linux Weekly News, where he admits one of the gating > factors for getting 2.2 out the door were long gaps where Linus was > not available to commit patches. So, in order of who can ACTUALLY add > code, we have FreeBSD with ~200 committers (the core team isn't the > only body that can commit code, they're the reviewers and arbiters) and > Linux with 1. Which is more likely to get bottlenecked during heavy > crunches? Which is glacial at getting releases out? Say, has anyone committed the new bind resolver code as libresolv, and ripped the ancient code out of libc, where it's damn near impossible to track the ISC releases of bind, yet? 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