Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 12th Jul 2007 19:38 UTC, submitted by mark
The next major release of FreeBSD, version 7, is one of the most significant so far, with amount of new technologies and improvement largest since introduction of 5.0. Since constantly searching the mailing lists for important changes can be a bit tedious, this page lists some of the more interesting new things in one place.
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RE[4]: if only hardware support was better..
by dickey on Sat 14th Jul 2007 11:29
in reply to "RE[3]: if only hardware support was better.."
Member since:2006-03-27
Well, reading the comments on the survey, it appears that the data was collected solely on the basis of email address, and that it overlooked some aliases. In short, it's raw data.
A similar survey a few years ago credited most of the work that I've done to other people (using the scientific method of grep'ing the sources looking for email addresses, full names, etc ;-). There's no evidence that this survey is any better. Doing an accurate survey takes a lot of time.
RE[5]: if only hardware support was better..
by dickey on Sat 14th Jul 2007 11:51
in reply to "RE[4]: if only hardware support was better.."
Member since:2006-03-27
For the record, the earlier survey was at this URL
http://orbiten.org/ofss/01.htm
Member since:
2006-07-15
Yes it could, but there are differences:
1) the very liberal BSD license and the GPL with copyleft; it's a big NO in the system because of the GPL restrictions
2) a different development model. Linux folk tends to work according to "just do it", whereas BSD folk adheres to "quality first".
3) last not least the lack of manpower. Almost 50-60% of the patches in Linux kernel are done by big companies[1] and there it's just the kernel. BSD is always the whole operating system to care about, so developers aren't taking care for the kernel only.
[1]<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/222773/">lwn.net
"Either way, the results come out about the same: at least 65% of the code which went into 2.6.20 was created by people working for companies." (fulltime)