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I think it has a bit of an opening given the outrageous fragmentation of the Linux ecosystem. There are what... three different inits? And in BSD the fragmenta
by danieldk 12y ago
I think it has a bit of an opening given the outrageous fragmentation of the Linux ecosystem. There are what... three different inits?
And in BSD the fragmentation is not only in inits, but the whole kernel and base system. We have FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFly BSD. Then there are sort-of-forks like Darwin and JunOS.
If we divide the number of active developers by the number of variants, I am pretty sure that Linux is doing much better.
There are good reasons for using BSD, but the lack of fragmentation is not one of them.
- justincormack 12y agoLinux has enormously more developers than all the BSDs put together. However the BSDs still manage to provide useful platforms that work well for large numbers of use cases, and provide innovation.