On 03/01/07 09:06 +0530, Vinayak Hegde wrote: <snip> > > There are other reasons for BSD falling behind. The major reason being > the lawsuit. Linus has gone on record saying that he wuld never have > developed on Linux were it not for the lawsuit. You need to get your > facts right. Also till the recent past (about 2-3 years), Freebsd was > neck-to-neck with Linux in terms of technology. > IMO, until IBM and co started throwing their weight around with 2.6, *BSD was a better choice technically. Add to that the unstable mess that was 2.4 and you had the makings of a disaster (2.4 was a disaster because Linux was running on mission critical servers, and no one would even dare to actually test 2.3 there. The whole community approach works when the community is willing to take risks. 2.6 had serious corporate test networks available for testing.)
Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
