Unified BSD?

Tomas Bodzar tomas.bodzar at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 03:48:51 PST 2012


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Hub- FreeBSD <freebsd at hub.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>

Tracking something like DesktopBSD which doesn't exist for quite a
long time make statistics not much useful. MidnightBSD seems to be
same case as last activy on mailing list last year in May, forums
doesn't working at all so we are still on 4 core BSDs
(Open/Net/Free/Dfly).

>
> 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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