[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 really don't know why Linux doesn't seem to provoke the same level of
flaming assholishness. This has even been true in the user's groups I
have dealt with.
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.
Those things all went into FreeBSD without forking it.
However, you are correct in that forking certainly wastes energy.
-a
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