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Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot (O'ReillyNet)
Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot (O'ReillyNet)
Posted Sep 15, 2006 20:45 UTC (Fri) by kothog (guest, #40547)Parent article: Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot (O'ReillyNet)
Please fork. If things really are this bad, not only will a fork provide
the code relief you seek, and not only will you see your principles
mirrored in a project people can believe in again, but you'll be proving
that you're right when everyone follows you out the door.
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How many BSDs will there be?
Posted Sep 15, 2006 23:14 UTC (Fri) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link]
too many to tell?
How many BSDs will there be?
Posted Sep 15, 2006 23:22 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
Does it matter? As long as each BSD has a community of developers and users (possibly the same people, possibly not) that care about the project, find the OS useful, and work well together, the size of that community doesn't matter.
How many BSDs will there be?
Posted Sep 18, 2006 17:31 UTC (Mon) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link]
I lost interest in the *BSD's over a decade ago in large part because of the constant fragmentation and destructive infighting. Each fork made BSD weaker and less interesting to me. The outcome of all that strife and devision is pretty clear today.
The ideal thing for the BSD camp would be for somebody to grab a large majority of the BSD mind share. They aren't likely to overtake Linux, but they would become a much more viable alternate OS. And diversity of options is a good thing.
Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot (O'ReillyNet)
Posted Sep 18, 2006 13:07 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
Please fork.
The fork happened over 10 years ago. Hannum was one of the big reasons for it. The result was OpenBSD. Theo de Raadt put up an exhaustive archive of the relevant e-mails at that time; you can still find it if you look for it. Theo comes off in the emails as abrasive, while Hannum comes out as obnoxious -- even more so in the light of what he now says (in the interview he now blames it all on Chris Demetriou and says he, Hannum, "knew" it would "bite them in the ass": the mails at the time make it clear that Chris was looking for ways to get Theo back in and Hannum was the one blocking it, sometimes openly, but mostly behind-the-scenes).
I can't take a word this guy says seriously.