Linus Tries Out BitKeeper

Flammon writes: "Linus has been overloaded with patches for a while and recently the issue started to become hot again. In an unprecedented move, Linus has started using BitKeeper, as reported by Linux Today. The benefits of BitKeeper are already showing from the large amount of detail provided in the latest unstable kernel pre-release." eirikref adds: "Read Linus' own statement and take a look at the BK web interface."

Comments

Hmm... That guy looks familiar...

[darylp]

I wonder if the nice people at Ask Jeeves are going to mind having their (presumably trademarked) logo swiped for this?

Linus not getting enough respect

[wrinkledshirt]

It's high time he told the community to screw off for a bit.

It's his friggin' hobby, after all. If people don't like the way he deals with it, maybe they ought to go work for a more personable coder on another OS, like, say, Theo De Raadt.

Scary thought, hey?

The most important point here is..

[QuantumG]

Linux uses pine! Look at the selm tag!


Pine.LNX.4.31.0202051928330.2375-100000

Re:It's a floor wax and a dessert topping

[SurfsUp]

Bitkeeper is available under two licenses. The commercial license costs money and comes with support. The non-commercial license does not cost money., but it has a requirement that all your ChangeLogs must be sent to a world-readable server controlled by BitMover.

Bitkeeper source is available, but it's illegal to redistribute a version of Bitkeeper with the mandatory open logging stripped out.

Bitmover Inc. wants to avoid the situation where people use bitkeeper like gcc, taking free software tools but not giving anything back. You can pay Bitmover money, or you can use a free-as-in-beer version that is suitable for software libre and unsuitable for closed-source software.

Hi Larry ;-)

Karma Whoring

[Amazing Quantum Man]

That comment really is there in the old V6 source. I went looking for it.