From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 15 10: 8: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6242E14BE3; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from terry@whistle.com) Received: from whistle.com (tlambert.whistle.com [207.76.205.208]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA81731; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <378E1448.B7C0E7B6@whistle.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:03:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters Cc: Tani Hosokawa , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD References: <378D7B21.51FCE5D3@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters wrote: > > Tani Hosokawa wrote: > > > > On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > Well, Linus is officially committed to it, IIRC. > > > > Go read the web page that was given in the > > > > e-mail... I quote: > > > > > > This doesn't answer my question at all, unfortunately. > > > I asked for specifics and I meant specifics. URLs > > > demonstrating an *active use* of Bitkeeper please - I > > > know it's intended to offer a web based browsing > > > interface, so where are they? :) > > > > "Because we haven't written up a license yet, this is a > > closed beta" > > > > So, it's not in active use right now for Linux, but it > > will be shortly. > > So you've just confirmed that no such specific documentation > exists, or can exist, because Linux has not yet officially > transitioned to BitKeeper. This also points out it will be > some time before the scalability and usability of BitKeeper, > or the willingness of the Linux leaders to submit to the > discipline of such a tool can be proven. > > Gee, Terry, this seems eerily familiar. Who else do we know > that ran through every existing source code control system > on the planet but refused to submit to any of them himself? Not me. I was one of the people who instituted CVS at Novell. I'd be interested to know who you think you are talking about, though. 8-). I think you guys are reading the wrong URL's. Instead of reading the out of date: http://www.bitkeeper.com/bk06.html I suggest you read: http://www.bitkeeper.com/bk12.html http://www.bitkeeper.com/free.html http://lwn.net/1999/features/BitKeeper.phtml ...and of course, going back to: http://www.bitkeeper.com/bk06.html and reading the last sentence of paragraph 1: Mail sales@bitmover.com if you want to take part in the Beta program. -- Terry Lambert -- Whistle Communications, Inc. -- terry@whistle.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- This is formal notice under California Assembly Bill 1629, enacted 9/26/98 that any UCE sent to my email address will be billed $50 per incident to the legally allowed maximum of $25,000. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message