• [^] # Re: Obsolète

    Posté par (Mastodon) . En réponse à la dépêche FreeBSD 13.0. Évalué à 9.

    Je crois que ça tient moins à la licence elle-même qu'au modèle de développement et au fait que linux a pris son essort à un moment ou BSD était empétrée dans des questions légales parce que la Berkeley Software Distribution avec la plainte lancée par AT&T à l'époque (et c'est ce qui rend les projets BSD particulièrement attentifs aux problème de licences).

    Ça a freiné la release de 386BSD et Linus lui-même avait admit qu'il n'aurait probablement jamais commencé linux si 386BSD avait été disponible avant et que le principal frein était le mode de développement :

    Meta: What is your opinion of 386BSD?

    Linus: Actually, I have never even checked 386BSD out; when I started on Linux it wast available (although Bill Jolitz series on it in Dr. Dobbs Journal had started and were interesting), and when 386BSD finally came out, Linux was already in a state where it was so usable that I never really thought about switching. If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened.

    I also have very limited computer resources (right now I have 160MB of disk spacethe original Linux development was done in 40MB), so I havent tried to set up 386BSD just to see what the competition does. This means that I have only followed the 386BSD discussion and development from the side. As far as I can tell, its a good port of BSD that is plagued by some problems (mostly non-technical).

    One of the major problems with 386BSD seems to be the lack of co-ordination: that may sound weird coming from the Linux background, but in fact the 386BSD project seems to suffer from a lot of people working on the same thing due to the long release cycle (I think there are three different and incompatible keyboard/console drivers for 386BSD). A long release cycle is the way to go in a controlled environment (i.e., commercial development), but I think it hurts the free development that results from a lot of unconnected persons having access to sources and doing lots of modification. The NetBSD project may be a step in the right direction, but I think 386BSD has been hurt by the way it has been developed.

    source: https://gondwanaland.com/meta/history/interview.html