Why not?

Aperez alfredoj69 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 09:37:01 PST 2005


Hello everybdody

I read an interview of Linus Torvald made by Linux Magazine. In that interview Linus mentioned the following:

"On the other hand, no, Linux does not have that stupid notion of having totally separate kernel development for different issues. If you want a secure BSD, you get OpenBSD; if you want a usable BSD, you get FreeBSD; and if you want BSD on other architectures, you get NetBSD. That___s just idiotic, to have different teams worry about different things."

I dont want to critize what Linus stated above. However, I find a very valid point when he says that every BSD version team is woking in different directions.

My question is this:

Why not all three teams work together for just one BSD version? 

At the moment there are three groups of developers and users working in the same issues. I think if we should all work together and create well rounded BSD version for us users and corporate clients. Imagine a BSD version that is portable (NetBSD), that is very secured (OpenBSD) and that is a good Destop solution (FreeBSD).





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