Unified BSD?

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 13 November 2012 07:04, Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:45:11AM +0100, 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.
>>
>
> MirBSD / MirOS is dead:
>
> http://www.freshbsd.org/search?project=mirbsd
>
> Last commit:  2011-08-29 23:00:00

Latest looks like 20120911 via http://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS/current/

Also, mksh (I use this on gentoo) & jupp (a fork of joe: I still use the ol
jstar for word processing) are both regularly worked upon.

In any case (getting back to the Original Troll), the various BSD
projects regularly borrow code from each other, so I hardly see the
point.

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