Unified BSD?

Johan Beisser jb at caustic.org
Tue Nov 13 16:51:51 UTC 2012


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Ignatios Souvatzis
<ignatios at cs.uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> 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.

OS X has benefitted greatly from FreeBSD, Apple hiring former FreeBSD
core team members. And indirectly from OpenBSD as well, with modern
versions of OS X, 10.7+, have pf.

Cross pollination is a huge benefit to the BSD community.


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