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[Taking more time to develop features correctly] just sounds like it takes longer for stuff to be released This attitude demonstrates a pretty significant lack

• njharman 16y ago
  The OP stated "This often means that it takes longer before we acquire new features." And the sentence contains the workds "Taking more time" Your reading comprehension needs improvement.
• cookiecaper 16y ago
  I don't know, it's not like Linux just lets things in after a week of testing. I understand the need to do things right, but I also understand the natural tendency in developers toward perfectionism. You have to strike a balance -- in some cases Linux may be closer than BSD or vice-versa, but the real thing is that the open-source philosophy of release early, release often is better embodied by something active like Linux.
  • sgift 16y ago
    Well, not really. While the official releases are quite conservative you can follow CURRENT, which is (as the name suggests) the current development tree. It is all out in the open and if you want something which has not been officially released you can get yourself a copy of the source tree, build yourself a new world ("make world") and you have a current FreeBSD (I cannot speak for the other BSD variants here, but I think the process is similar) with all warts and all the new shiny developments. Oh - and all the bugs.