From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jan 27 22:49:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F394414CCD for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:49:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id WAA19641; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:48:21 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id WAA03344; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:48:20 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.236]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id WAA28208; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:48:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38913CDB.4622F6D7@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:53:15 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Howard Cc: "James A. Mutter" , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another advocacy opportunity References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Howard wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > > > FreeBSD is developed by a group of nearly 200 volunteers who work on > > an ongoing basis to ensure its reliability and stability. Two > > separate versions or ``branches'' are developed simultaneously. The > > FreeBSD-STABLE branch is targeted at end users and professionals. The > > FreeBSD-CURRENT branch where the leading edge development occurs, and > > is intended developers and testers. Important changes made to the > ^for > > > CURRENT branch migrate to the STABLE branch after significant testing > > and review. > > > > With over 100 updates, additions, and bug fixes made to the two > > branches each day, several easy and simple means of keeping a FreeBSD > > installation updated have been developed, each with a distinct niche. > > Additionally, daily snapshots of both branches are released via the > > Internet for testing and usage, as well as regularly scheduled > > releases. > > I like this a lot more than what I had. Fixing the minor problem above, > I'll replace the current text with this if nobody says anything by > morning. Does this count as writing by committee? :) No, but it might count as editing by committee. Making someone else's writing 1% better is a lot less work than writing in the first place. ;^) > I am posing this question again: How can I explain why the FreeBSD > security model is better than Linux/WinNT/Solaris/whatever. I find it > difficult to explain and think that means it will be difficult to > understand for someone not steeped in the culture. I wish I could explain it, too. I'm working on something along those lines for the March Daemon's Advocate, but the thoughts are a long way from jelling, let alone having them down on disk. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message