On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:24:42PM -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > 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.
While each distros kernel is probably less different than a NetBSD vs. FreeBSD kernel, there still each different and a lot more of them. I had to download and install a very specific kernel from redhat to use on my debian system so I could use my wireless card. Also, some features can very wildly like IPSEC, some distros patch in FreeSWAN's stack, others the KAME stack. > > The Linux distros keep getting their kernel workings from one group > (even if they tweak them). The BSDs do not. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2
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