Why not?

[Loren M. Lang]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:24:42PM -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> 
> On Mar 12, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Chris wrote:
> 
> >Aperez wrote:
> >>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."
> >
> >Here's irony posed as a question:
> >
> >... and how many distros of Linux are there?
> 
> I think the difference is that Linus is working on the Linux kernel.  
> The distros, numerous as they are, all run the same kernel.  Those 
> separate distros package the other applications and userland apps and 
> default configs.  The kernel itself isn't under separate forks, whereas 
> from what I understand the kernels for FBSD/NetBSD/OBSD are very 
> similar, share a lot of crossed-over code, but are not identical and 
> have separate "management" teams behind them.

While each distros kernel is probably less different than a NetBSD vs.
FreeBSD kernel, there still each different and a lot more of them.  I
had to download and install a very specific kernel from redhat to use on
my debian system so I could use my wireless card.

Also, some features can very wildly like IPSEC, some distros patch in
FreeSWAN's stack, others the KAME stack.

> 
> The Linux distros keep getting their kernel workings from one group 
> (even if they tweak them).  The BSDs do not.
> 
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