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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. Knock yerselfes out by The+Bungi · · Score: 0, Troll
    * In my experience, Linux is not as stable as FreeBSD. I run a couple of Linux systems in my home network, and though they don't have much work to do, they tend to have software problems which require rebooting much more often than the FreeBSD systems. One machine regularly has hangs in the IP stack due to what look like memory leaks. From my last job I know a number of high-profile Linux hackers, but none have been able to help diagnose the problem.

    Would someone care to tell this guy he's an idiot? No? Oh, because that's what Linux zealots tell me. But I'm not a kernel hacker. Apparently, any bug that causes instability in Linux is, um, my fault, and I'm probably doing something stupid. Because Linux is perfect. It has no bugs and it's much more stable than my W2K boxes (server and pro) which get rebooted on principle every month or so. Unlike the Debian one, which eventually gets unusable after a few days and has to be rebooted. So it must be me.

    So go ahead, tell him the problem is between the keyboard and the chair.

    Any takers?