Re: Interesting NetBSD annual report

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.
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Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant               decibel@decibel.org
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