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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@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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