Unified BSD?
Julian H. Stacey
jhs at berklix.com
Tue Nov 13 17:52:26 UTC 2012
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se>
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:34:56 +0100
> Message-id: <50A23E70.8010509 at update.uu.se>
Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2012-11-13 11:45, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:08:08AM +0100, Joost van de Griek wrote:
> >> On 12 Nov 2012, at 21:37 , Robin Björklin <robin.bjorklin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Am I bat crap crazy for thinking it could be good to merge the four largest BSD variants out there, take the best bits and pieces out of each and create a Unified BSD?
> >>
> >>
> >> You'd end up creating a fifth.
> >
> > At least a sixth, IIRC. You left out MirBSD from your distribution list.
> > Also, you could argue that Minix, with its NetBSD compatibility,
> > is a seventh and MacOS-X, with its partially (Free-/Net-)BSD compatible
> > userland, an eighth.
>
> And what about 2BSD, BSD 3 and BSD 4 with all their releases?
> (And I assume that there was probably something that in retrospect would
> have been called 1BSD as well...)
>
> Johnny
No they were sequential from same team, not later parallel forks.
Cheers,
Julian
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