Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:04:21 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <378D79E5.D429E5A4@softweyr.com> References: <199907150317.UAA14817@usr07.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> > And, by the way, Linux doesn't have a CVS tree, or any other sort of source
> > control system. They have Linus' home machine, and (hopefully) some
> > backups somewhere. Great way to run a development program.
>
> Wrong. They have Larry McVoy's "BitKeeper", which addresses a
> number of the issues that result in the emergent property of
> forking in the BSD distributions deriving from the BSD
> distributions use of CVS.
If Linus uses BitKeeper to store his "backups", that's just fine and good.
The point still remains that the list of people who can commit changes to
the official Linux kernel remains at:
Linus Torvalds
> Bitkeeper is now publically available, so long as your change log
> (not including source, -- just comments) is visible on the web
> (or you buy a license).
Bitkeeper has been publically available for quite some time; our system
engineering group evaluated it last summer before choosing Perforce.
It seems quite effective, but doesn't seem to scale well to geographically
distributed development teams.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com
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