From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 11 21:00:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA26606 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:00:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from konnections.com (mail.konnections.com [207.173.185.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA26600 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mallison@konnections.com) Received: from ip185-201.konnections.com (ip185-201.konnections.com [207.173.185.201]) by konnections.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id VAA01658; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:56:29 -0600 (MDT) Received: by ip185-201.konnections.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BCD691.0728D610@ip185-201.konnections.com>; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 22:00:03 -0600 Message-ID: <01BCD691.0728D610@ip185-201.konnections.com> From: Mike Allison To: "dkelly@hiwaay.net" , "'John S. Dyson'" Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Linux vs freeBSD Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 22:00:02 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id VAA26601 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.