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*BSD vs Linux*BSD vs LinuxPosted Dec 28, 2011 7:51 UTC (Wed) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)In reply to: Merry Christmas from FreeBSD by rahulsundaram Parent article: Merry Christmas from FreeBSD
This seems to me symptomatic of the general difference in philosophy between *BSD and Linux distros: Linux distros are decentralized, modular efforts, with hundreds, nay, thousands, of separate projects for the separate parts that go into a major-league distro. The use of decentralized Git for core components like the kernel fits in with this philosophy.
Whereas the BSDs are centralized projects, which even when they make use of code from other projects, prefer to have their own copies of that code in their centralized repository. Hence their preference for a centralized VCS like Subversion.
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*BSD vs Linux Posted Dec 28, 2011 9:23 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
Great, but you can use git that way too.
There's nothing about git that says you can't have one central truth where everything has to go.
*BSD vs Linux Posted Dec 28, 2011 11:05 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Exactly. The *other* benefits of using git like performance makes it worth the effort to switch even when projects are being developed in a central fashion, which is why I explicitly mentioned a BSD flavor using it already. There are dozens of other examples. So thats a poor rationale.
*BSD vs Linux Posted Dec 31, 2011 21:30 UTC (Sat) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link] Last time I checked [with peter@fbsd], it was some emotional ***ching about how they're different...
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