From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 22:30:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B1116A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:30:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A5543D49 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:30:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:26:47 -0600 Message-ID: <42336D7B.7030301@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:30:19 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aperez References: <20050312123840.19848c79.alfredoj69@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050312123840.19848c79.alfredoj69@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Mar 2005 22:26:47.0884 (UTC) FILETIME=[944D90C0:01C52752] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:30:23 -0000 Aperez wrote: >Hello everybdody > >I read an interview of Linus Torvald made by Linux Magazine. In that >interview Linus mentioned the following: > >"On the other hand, no, Linux does not have that stupid notion of >having totally separate kernel development for different issues. If >you want a secure BSD, you get OpenBSD; if you want a usable BSD, you >get FreeBSD; and if you want BSD on other architectures, you get >NetBSD. That___s just idiotic, to have different teams worry about >different things." > >I dont want to critize what Linus stated above. However, I find a >very valid point when he says that every BSD version team is woking >in different directions. > >My question is this: > >Why not all three teams work together for just one BSD version? > >At the moment there are three groups of developers and users >working in the same issues. I think if we should all work together >and create well rounded BSD version for us users and corporate >clients. Imagine a BSD version that is portable (NetBSD), that >is very secured (OpenBSD) and that is a good Destop solution (FreeBSD). > > > At the risk of really *being* a troll, I'll philosophize apart from the technical world for a moment. Some people are born, grow up, and when the time is right, based on love, respect, and trust, they start a family. (You can view ours under /usr/share/misc/ on most systems). Others are born, grow up, discover they are popular and fsck around with anyone who'll have them. They say that it's more fun, and maybe it is for a while; nature takes its course and the seeds scatter where they may.... On one hand you'll usually (rules exist to prove exceptions, right?) have a relatively small group of well-adjusted individuals after several years. On the other, you'll have a legions of messed-up bastardized malcontents. Draw your own conclusions.... Kevin Kinsey P.S. I have nothing personal against Linux, Mr. Torvalds, or $name_here. It's just that I'm a family-oriented person ;-)