Unified BSD?

Mandacarú Cascavel mancasc at yahoo.com.br
Fri Nov 16 08:14:45 PST 2012


On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:48:51 +0100
Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bodzar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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And MirOS or MirBSD? (http://www.mirbsd.org)

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