From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 16:05:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1466316A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:05:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1F543D2F for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:05:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.21] (rat.samsco.home [192.168.254.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2TG9uIM004943; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:09:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <42497C65.7010807@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:03:49 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050321 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mohamed aslan References: <319cceca0503281001792baf39@mail.gmail.com> <42485A54.9000101@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <319cceca05032811484cb1a95b@mail.gmail.com> <42487982.30909@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <319cceca05032907411014a218@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <319cceca05032907411014a218@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on pooker.samsco.org cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: organization X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:05:57 -0000 mohamed aslan wrote: > guys this is not a flame war > but the linux way in arranging the source file is really better than > freebsd way, it's a fact. > however it's easy to rearrange it in 1 min as someone said before. > but i mean this step should be done from the core team. > for example all fs has to go in a subdir called fs > arch specific file should go in subdir called arch/(arch name) > and so on . > if ls the files in freebsd sys subdir , u will got about 54 subdirs > and a makefile while linux contains about 15 subdirs only. > > guys, don't take my words against bsd , i admit that the performace of > bsd is much better than linux and i'm planning to change to it as my > primary os. but we can get the good things from linux and through out > the bad ones. > Have you ever thought that time is better spent on engineering rather than silly dicussions of 'facts' like yours? I really don't give a hoot what Linux's layout is, nor whether you think that changing FreeBSD to be more like it is a trivial task. Scott