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Interview With The FreeBSD Core Team

Posted by timothy on from the free-as-in-bsd dept.

Gentu writes "OSNews features an ultra interesting and in-depth interview with three members of FreeBSD's Core team (Wes Peters, Greg Lehey and M. Warner Losh) and also a major FreeBSD developer (Scott Long). They discuss issues from the Java port to corporate backing, the Linux competition, the 5.x branch and how it stacks up against the other Unices, UFS2, the possible XFree86 fork, SCO and its Unix IP situation, even... re-unification of the BSDs."

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  1. BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Currently, BSD is missing three things that linux has. The first is a unified API. In Linux, the API is unified - there are a few distinct ways of interacting with things. (alsa and oss as far as sound, for example. However, with BSD and other unixes, this does not exist. Another thing BSD is missing is a proper video display. The video display code in the Linux kernel is far better than BSD's. The last thing BSD lacks is name recognition - everyone's heard of Linux.