If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions just like there are on Linux?

[Daniel Corbe]

Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:

> On 03/12/14 17:12, Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote:
>> If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions
>> just like there are on Linux?

> Note though that 'distro' doesn't translate into *BSD terms in quite the
> same way you'ld expect.  FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, Darwin
> are all *BSDs but they aren't distros in the Linux sense -- they are
> complete stand-alone OSes.  Things like PC-BSD and pfsense are arguably
> 'distros' of FreeBSD.

OpenBSD is arguably a distro of NetBSD.