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FreeBSD has always had a centralized development model that inoculates it against the kind of Linux churn that you see in terms of "different developers, differ
by teacup50 10y ago
FreeBSD has always had a centralized development model that inoculates it against the kind of Linux churn that you see in terms of "different developers, different backers, different agendas".
Either you produce a careful, generalized solution, or it's rejected.
- mioelnir 10y agoYes, but in the presented hypothetical and over such a long time, the fact that it was able to maintain this in its current underdog role does not mean it would have been able to so as the main adopted 'nix.
- teacup50 10y agoI'm not sure it's fait acompli (I could be convinced!). My thinking is: there's no requirement that a project not only accept just about any half-baked feature patch, but actually design an entire version control system to optimize for that use-case.