On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:21:36AM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > BSD also fragmented into about 4 different systems around 1991/1992 when > Linux was starting to pick up steam. This was probably a stronger > impact than legal issues. Think about the amount of duplicated effort > on the userspace.
I can only guess that Linux's history of avoiding major forks is thanks to Linus's leadership ability. This shows that leadership matters. > I will point out that the *BSD's seem to be better able to get complex > things right with less grief than on the Linux side. The TCP stack has > always been the technology leader. VM changes provoke far less drama. > The GEOM subsystem went in with drama, but at least it went in (the > Linux FS abstractions are a mess). The memory allocator on FreeBSD is > much superior to Linux (so much so that Mozilla is stealing it for Firefox). Yes but forking the OS everytime someone wants to do something sounds like some measure of grief to me. cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
