Unified BSD?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-11-13 18:51, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Hi,
> Reference:
>> From:		Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se>
>> Date:		Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:34:56 +0100
>> Message-id:	<50A23E70.8010509 at update.uu.se>
>
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2012-11-13 11:45, 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 what about 2BSD, BSD 3 and BSD 4 with all their releases?
>> (And I assume that there was probably something that in retrospect would
>> have been called 1BSD as well...)
>>
>> 	Johnny
>
> No they were sequential from same team, not later parallel forks.

Not so fast... 2BSD and BSD 4 are definitely parallel, almost to this 
day, I'd say... Well, BSD 4 has been sortof dead for a number of years 
now, but 2BSD is not entirely so dead yet. And things were back- and 
forwardported between the two for a while.

	Johnny