[Tfug] BSD flavors

[Jude Nelson]

I did a bit more research and it seems that, at least with FreeBSD, the
development is a bit less centralized than I had originally thought.  Like
in Debian, there are package maintainers (in this case, port maintainers)
that work with the core team to produce a stable release.  Haven't tried it
out yet; is it worth the hour-long download?

Regards,
Jude

On 3/13/07, christopher floess <skeptikos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Benevolent master (I know you used dictator) is one of my favorite terms
> :)
>
> I wouldn't get into a debate about centralized vs. decentralized
> development, since I don't really know enough about
> either. I actually got into FreeBSD b/c I wanted something
> adventurous, and I liked the FreeBSD mascot better than the linux. I'm
> constantly debating which way I should be going though. In the end I
> really
> just think they both have their place.
>
> On 3/12/07, Jude Nelson <judecn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/6/07, christopher floess <skeptikos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I think another thing that bsd advocates see as an advantage, is that
> > > freebsd is a centrally developed os while linux is just
> > > the kernel with an environment built around it, if someone can
> > > elaborate on this better, please do
> > > so, but I think I read somewhere that that translates into a more
> > > dependable environment, though some times it also means freebsd is
> > slower
> > > to
> > > add support for new stuff. That's my two cents, hopefully I'm not way
> > off
> > > :)
> >
> >
> > Here's how I understand it:
> >
> > The BSD community makes use of highly centralized development practices.
> > BSD OS's are like small Linux distributions:  only a handful of people
> > maintain everything.  Also, each has its own Benevolent Dictator For
> Life
> > (
> > a.k.a. the founder), who usually leads the kernel development team for
> > that
> > BSD.  The BSDs are basically open source OS's with a management model
> > similar to proprietary OS's.  Their development cycles are slower, but
> > their
> > releases have a slightly higher chance of not having bugs.  I don't see
> > this
> > as an advantage; large distributions like Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Red
> > Hat,
> > and Ubuntu, for example, while they may on extremely rare occasion have
> a
> > broken package (i.e. Ubuntu had that X server crash bug a while back),
> the
> > development community is HUMONGOUS and quick to react.  Things may break
> > more easily in the Linux development community, but things also get
> fixed
> > way quicker than in the BSD community.  Also, the BSD community is
> usually
> > confined to the academic fields, particularly R&D.
> >
> > At least, that's how I've come to know it.  Please correct me if I'm
> wrong
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