The future of NetBSD

The future of NetBSD

Posted Aug 31, 2006 21:48 UTC (Thu) by ajross (subscriber, #4563)
In reply to: The future of NetBSD by cventers
Parent article: The future of NetBSD

That's sad to see, but it's also sad to see that many of the responses to the post are along the lines of 'but Linux only got X because of Y' or 'but Linux has problem Z'.

Indeed. In fact, it's a little distressing to see how much sniping in general this elicited, including a bunch of "told you so" swipes from OpenBSD partisans apparently still irate about Theo's ejection from NetBSD so many years ago. It doesn't make the BSD community (with which I mostly lost touch maybe 7 years ago) look very healthy at all.

In comparison, it makes the biggest flame wars of the linux community (things like KDE vs. Gnome, the reiser4 mess, the Linux/Tridge/Larry bk debacle...) look remarkably productive. At least our messes are usually about real software and get resolved via real actions. This seems kinda ... lame.

But maybe it's just the fact that the communities are smaller. In the BSD world, maybe this ends up on the core mailing lists because the hoi polloi have no where else to go; in the linux world they would be occupied with things like Gentoo flames on lwn.net.

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