From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 13 21:43:20 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B466B2 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:43:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from msporleder@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qc0-f182.google.com (mail-qc0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE8B8FC08 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:43:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k19so4327998qcs.13 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:43:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NcepfX8ezTyq2GL+mk9vBS+879skCpLyfvL754WfcdM=; b=DBM2Hh6mfQxTmp2Ap2fdXhsWUGQ10B62OplVhOm2r4AjqVTGNdQY16f4rxXCTQottL W91WAVXCzUs4toTVE+dkgcO1mx2plSeC0C2Kly+vqf64ZJ1bhIrknCSJDhn1GEhZDXmr koQeU/kiOM6c9cBV+3+vjGQqDkHBXXtX2NY/ib5ifMlILo4oGNiSlsa9jEdyP2tk7zE6 1+qdOsKSrrNnlaSeuXeuxbB8Nej9+uNj/aliCb0hCvR8SR26mCpRi1FXPJ8bMdHL49vc OZZSPsT/j9GVqwhBij50lUNTfdB5RgVsesJSbwOV/4Da0RYSg0vMCTfCHqh3Pgub2SJK vZtw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.49.132.68 with SMTP id os4mr3800697qeb.65.1352842998624; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:43:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.120.232 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:43:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:43:18 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Unified BSD? From: matthew sporleder To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Robin_Bj=F6rklin?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: misc@openbsd.org, users@dragonflybsd.org, NetBSD Users Mailing List , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:43:20 -0000 On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Robin Bj=F6rklin wrote: > Hi! > > First and foremost I'd like to present myself, I'm a young and naive juni= or > sys admin that think people should be able to compromise and see the bigg= er > picture and the good of the cause. > > Now over to the reason for my post. > > As all of you probably know there's a lot of buzz around Gnu/Linux these > days and I'm pretty sure you couldn't care less. What I'm wondering is wh= y > the BSD community which from what I can gather isn't as big as the Linux > community have decided to split their resources into several different > projects/forks/distributions. To me it seems *BSD would be in a more > competitive shape if all developers would get in under one roof? > > Am I bat crap crazy for thinking it could be good to merge the four large= st > BSD variants out there, take the best bits and pieces out of each and cre= ate > a Unified BSD? > > Kind Regards, > Robin Bjorklin Model yourself after Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino who was involved in Net, Open, and Free BSD. If you are interested in generating linux-like "buzz" advocate hardware manufacturers and industry types to fund (with money) development of drivers. Matt