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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. Don't they know? by Ed+Avis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Talk about 'last words'!

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  2. Re:Last time I heard... by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is, the interview was really a seance

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  3. This Has Gotta Be a First by Homebrewed · · Score: 3, Funny

    What a surprise-- a well-written, usefull, and interesting article by Eugenia. Have pigs indeed spouted wings?

  4. BSD doesn't have linus's twin sister. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    linux has cute geeks too.

    http://150.101.112.216/temp/geektwins.jpg

  5. What? No legal threats? by death+to+hanzosan · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Finally, the FreeBSD core team has not been contacted by SCO representives directly."
    What? No pompous, threatening letters from SCO group? I've always thought that "BSD is dying" was just a huge troll, but if you're not even noteworthy enough to get unjustly harassed by SCO group, you're doing something wrong!
  6. Re:BSD by Devil+Ducky · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where BSD needs to copy Linux is in the packaging systems. First, you need so many different ways to package a program that half of every development team is devoted just to making all the variations. Then, you need a dumb public who only recognizes one of those systems, as a hint here they should choose the one with the worst dependency techniques of the group. Once this is complete a group of people who are completly unreleated to any section of the development of BSD have to get together to make a BSD-SB. This group should continue the tradition of choosing the worst variants of how things are done and make them the new standard. Finally a small group of hard core BSDers need to get together to create a new distirbution which will not be BSD-SB compliant, but will be based on a cool idea for software distribution that they saw implemented in Gentoo. Then the circle of popular unix clones will be complete.

    Note to the people with no sense of humor: don't read this comment.

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  7. porting FreeBSD to Java? by ceswiedler · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're porting FreeBSD to Java? Wow, that's impressive. What OS do they run the JVM on?

  8. Can't resist by niom · · Score: 1, Funny

    The FreeBSD Core Team is dying ;-).

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  9. i have a question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    freeBSD vs. Linux - Which has better games ? also, how much does the non-free bsd cost, and where can i get it ?

    1. Re:i have a question by Ores · · Score: 2, Funny

      You might notice BSD is spelt with less letters
      this gives it less overhead and hence makes it faster than the more cumbersome Linux, expecially once you Add Gnu to it

  10. Linux is dying by 1g$man · · Score: 3, Funny

    Linux sucks far worse than BSD.

    Just ask Google:

    BSD sucks 28,400 results.
    Linux sucks 228,000 results.

    It is quite clear that the users have spoken: Linux Sucks! Long Live BSD!