organization

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Tue Mar 29 08:05:57 PST 2005


mohamed aslan wrote:
> guys this is not a flame war
> but the linux way in arranging the source file is really better than
> freebsd way, it's a fact.
> however it's easy to rearrange it in 1 min as someone said before.
> but i mean this step should be done from the core team.
> for example all fs has to go in a subdir called fs
> arch specific file should go in subdir called arch/(arch name)
> and so on .
> if ls the files in freebsd sys subdir , u will got about 54 subdirs
> and a makefile while linux contains about 15 subdirs only.
> 
> guys, don't take my words against bsd , i admit that the performace of
> bsd is much better than linux and i'm planning to change to it as my
> primary os. but we can get the good things from linux and through out
> the bad ones.
> 

Have you ever thought that time is better spent on engineering rather 
than silly dicussions of 'facts' like yours?  I really don't give a hoot
what Linux's layout is, nor whether you think that changing FreeBSD to
be more like it is a trivial task.

Scott


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