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Is there any (ideally charitable, historical) writing about this for the uninitiated?
by pxc 3y ago
Is there any (ideally charitable, historical) writing about this for the uninitiated?
- inferiorhuman 3y agoYou've gotta be careful giving vikings a commit bit. Your best bet for information is probably the mailing list archives. To be a bit reductive, Matt had strong opinions about SMP and threading and got his commit bit yanked. As a result he forked FreeBSD (4?) to create DragonFlyBSD. It's not so far off of how we ended up with OpenBSD really. Or as Linus put it, Theo is… difficult. Honestly, I think these forced forks are good. They're a a perfectly natural result of getting a bunch of smart, opinionated people in a group together. They've given some incredibly smart people a much bigger sandbox to play in. As a result we've got things like openssh and hammer.