Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:57:08 -0500 From: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory... Message-ID: <20000314105708.U6300@devserv.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com>; from dennis@etinc.com on Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 01:36:31PM -0500 References: <200003101840.NAA12885@etinc.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003111306520.14049-100000@bsd1.nyct.net> <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com>
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> Another point is that Open Source is virtually synonomous with "Totally > undocumented". The linux community, years into it, are still totally > dependent on Alan Cox to fix drivers properly (mostly because the OS is > completely undocumented and changes are made on a whim regularly). D. This is, not surprisingly, incorrect. I'm mildly curious to know how you arrived at this opinion, but only mildly. I'm sure the list cares even less. Alan can be seen as a concentrator/reviewer for the 2.2.x line. He actually authors a small percentage of the code that passes through him to Linus. fwiw. > Becker continues to be the only one that can properly fix the ethernet > drivers because they are such a mess and poorly documented. And this is even more amusing, showing that you haven't really been paying much attention recently :) -- zach To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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