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A peek at the DragonFly Virtual Kernel (part 2)A peek at the DragonFly Virtual Kernel (part 2)Posted Apr 19, 2007 4:44 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)Parent article: A peek at the DragonFly Virtual Kernel (part 2) According to your own FAQ: LWN, initially, was "Linux Weekly News." That name has been deemphasized over time as we have moved beyond just the weekly coverage, and as we have looked at the free software community as a whole. Yet now you write: For those who questioned why a BSD development appears on this page, the answer is simple: there is value in seeing how others have solved common problems. Nice to know that the BSD community is now regarded as "others". In that case why not Windows articles too?
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A peek at the DragonFly Virtual Kernel (part 2) Posted Apr 19, 2007 10:32 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link] When the Windows source code is open and freely available, sure ;)
A peek at the DragonFly Virtual Kernel (part 2) Posted Apr 20, 2007 6:47 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] My point is, LWN now claims to be about the whole free software community.In that case no justification should be necessary for this article. If on the other hand, it is "useful to see how others do things", we can equally learn from closed-source systems.
A peek at the DragonFly Virtual Kernel (part 2) Posted Apr 20, 2007 7:06 UTC (Fri) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link] True, no justification should be neccesary but some people apparently thought it was outside the scope of lwn.net.
In regards to closed source systems, the fact that the source (among other things) isn't available makes that quite a bit more difficult.
BSD on LWN Posted Apr 20, 2007 20:21 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] The issue is putting it on this page, not in LWN. Though the title doesn't convey it, the "Kernel" page is specifically about the Linux kernel. So Dragonfly does have to be relevant to the Linux kernel for this article to fit on this page.Other pages have contained BSD news without justification.
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