Unified BSD?

Hub- FreeBSD freebsd at hub.org
Fri Nov 16 08:34:30 UTC 2012


Actually, according to what we are tracking at http://bsdstats.org, there are currently *8*:

PC-BSD
FreeBSD
PYC-BSD (aka Rus-BSD)
DesktopBSD
OpenBSD
NetBSD
DragonflyBSD
MidnightBSD


On 2012-11-16, at 12:30 AM, Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> wrote:

> On 11/13/12 2:45 AM, 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 Free/Net derived kernel.  (at least for unix services: vfs, inet, process)
>> 
>> 	-is
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