From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 14 23: 5:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F10154E9; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:05:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id XAA27703; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:04:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id XAA03654; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:04:06 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA23696; Wed, 14 Jul 99 23:04:22 PDT Message-Id: <378D79E5.D429E5A4@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:04:21 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD References: <199907150317.UAA14817@usr07.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 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. If Linus uses BitKeeper to store his "backups", that's just fine and good. The point still remains that the list of people who can commit changes to the official Linux kernel remains at: Linus Torvalds > 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). Bitkeeper has been publically available for quite some time; our system engineering group evaluated it last summer before choosing Perforce. It seems quite effective, but doesn't seem to scale well to geographically distributed development teams. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message