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FreeBSD Core Developer Thrown Out

Posted by chrisd on from the maybe-good-maybe-bad dept.

SlashChick writes "From a discussion on the freebsd-chat mailing list, it appears that one of the FreeBSD core developers, Matt Dillon, has been barred from committing any changes to the FreeBSD kernel. Dillon was one of the developers 'responsible for making FreeBSD 4.x the most rugged and stress-proof free operating system in existence,' and also contributed to fixing the Linux VM. Unfortunately, there has been little explanation from the FreeBSD core team about why Dillon was thrown out, leading to speculation and worries about the future of the FreeBSD kernel. Does the Slashdot community have any more insight into this situation? Would someone from the FreeBSD team care to elaborate and assuage our worries?" CD Update: Greg Lehey from the core team has infact elaborated in this comment.

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  1. Nice name... by BalkanBoy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hopefully they didn't throw him out because he is named after a very popular actor ;).

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  2. One door closes, another one opens... by xeniten · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe Matt can find work at the OpenBSD project?
    : )

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  3. It's not a devil by rgmoore · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's not a devil. That's a daemon.

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    There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.

  4. FreeBSD != Linux by kikta · · Score: 1, Redundant

    FreeBSD is not Linux. They are two different things. I'm not really sure what the point of your comment is. "...barred from committing any changes to the FreeBSD kernel" means that he can't make changes to the official version on his own. He would have to send his changes to someone still on the team & have them approve it & add it. Just like the average joe programmer looking to help out.