Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 22:00:02 -0600 From: Mike Allison <mallison@konnections.com> To: "dkelly@hiwaay.net" <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, "'John S. Dyson'" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Linux vs freeBSD Message-ID: <01BCD691.0728D610@ip185-201.konnections.com>
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John: I remember we discussed this a few months ago when discussing having a "new developments" sort of list or file where commercial developers could go to see what's new to exploit and alos see what changes might affect their product. I still think that's needed to some degree. I see some Linux distributions which claim expanded capabilities, or some such and it would be nice to know exactly how they were expanded to see if I want to bother with it. Or, knowing what was new and whether it would run under previous versions so I could just ;oad the app or utility without messing with the system. -Mike ---------- From: John S. Dyson Sent: Saturday, October 11, 1997 9:18 PM To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs freeBSD I don't know if it is wise to add to this discussion or not :-). I am one of the people who hack on the wd driver, but certainly not the owner of it. One of the differences between FBSD and Linux is that we on FBSD tend to avoid touting features. I don't know why if it is cultural or fear :-). For example, given my interest in being "responsible", I tend not to tell people about things that are really new. So often, people use FBSD in mission critical applications, and when new, but green features are crowed about, it eventually causes lots of bug reports about something broken in -current, that is shutting down a $10M business. After moving from -current to -stable (usually 6mos to 1yr later), we -current developers aren't that excited about those new features, and our "advertising literature" is missing the feature.
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