Unified BSD?

Johnny Billquist bqt at update.uu.se
Fri Nov 16 13:52:56 UTC 2012


On 2012-11-16 12:48, Tomas Bodzar 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).

I find it rather meaningless as a tracking tool for BSD in general. 
There is no way something like 2BSD would ever appear there, no matter 
how many systems were installed.

And I also do happen to consider OS-X to be a BSD system. :-)

	Johnny

>
>>
>> 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



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