[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software
Scott Dorsey
kludge at panix.com
Mon Jan 15 11:39:52 EST 2024
In article <uo2h17$qsie$3 at dont-email.me>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 12:22:22 +0000, chrisq wrote:
>
>> On 1/8/24 02:38, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 20:01:58 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>
>>>> All the Linux distros are based on the same kernel project,
>>>> same GNU core utils etc..
>>>
>>> Again: *why* are the BSDs not able to manage this?
>>>
>> ...which begs the question, why is that so important ?.
>> Diversity improves the breed and enables better fit to a problem, based
>> on requirements.
>
>Linux is able to manage diversity without fragmentation. Why not the BSDs?
Because the BSD community is fine with fragmentation. Don't think about it
as fragmentation per se, think about it as specialization.
--scott
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