On Mar 12, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Chris wrote:
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."
Here's irony posed as a question:
... and how many distros of Linux are there?
I think the difference is that Linus is working on the Linux kernel. The distros, numerous as they are, all run the same kernel. Those separate distros package the other applications and userland apps and default configs. The kernel itself isn't under separate forks, whereas from what I understand the kernels for FBSD/NetBSD/OBSD are very similar, share a lot of crossed-over code, but are not identical and have separate "management" teams behind them.
The Linux distros keep getting their kernel workings from one group (even if they tweak them). The BSDs do not.
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