On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:27:09PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > >On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:42:51AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > >>>They complain about release delays and the challenge of organizing > >>>volunteers, just like us. > >> > >>Is there any volunteer organization that's any different? :-) > > > >FreeBSD doesn't seem to suffer much from either issue. Then again, they > >also have something like 2000 committers, probably about 100 of which > >are very active. > > FreeBSD suffers from *alot* of other things because of havin gtoo many > committers :( As hard-core FreeBSD as I've been over the years, things > haven't been the same since Jordan left ... to the point that I'm already > planning on moving over to DragonFlyBSD (fork project of FreeBSD ... > same base code as what we're currently using [ie. FreeBSD 4.x] but > with *alot* of fixes for some pretty major problems that still exist > in the current version of FreeBSD) over the next few months ... they've > already re-written the VFS system, which we tax heavily, but haven't > finished the rewrite of the unionfs code (which is how we tax VFS) which > is in the works ... > > Love the OS ... not so haappy with the direction its taken :(
Hrm, guess it's been too long since I've been subscribed to -current. I know they're still working bugs out of 5.x, but I attributed that to the major changes made. One of the big reasons I've been such a fan of FBSD is the technical direction was set by a group of very competent people, instead of just one person. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match