From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 11:48:53 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 5A6C36FF for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:48:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomas.bodzar@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116978FC08 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:48:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f182.google.com with SMTP id 16so3360967obc.13 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:48:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=28PCoUFZDBhbxyZoiiMTZTtmo+9WQX23LpRWyh+xxBg=; b=pyrs6iYHfymQX9whH39Cqh+kILzYrvvDsKXYAOnEtfjB49Tg77n47SOuFso9BVSNPy CGNBw9iOEC2ynE6LALGEKg7hDc9MxrkJNHoh0J+dra/DsVkMV63vdjS8SZ/xODIqcHVA GfvT/pC413HdTr5jArG1uYJ8gGZS8H0Ej5lIghcmS+eHI7GJf+uaZAd3fcil0F81Ki7G 9SunxhXA9igfZqTK+4pkV9I+zfffEqf+pkD/a7leoHsK7Ycdx3vfaA3Iwz3rUBxmmNwz OjBMeMW4tN62Jhy6qs/LYpTcf5KlFFye7ZpS5+cdv0m9+Qn8AJM5mHcKx3wNvAie4Ly6 urSw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.134.66 with SMTP id pi2mr3641071obb.42.1353066532080; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:48:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.11.68 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:48:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1C35F6E4-4A43-43C4-8256-17C58E8F8F01@hub.org> References: <20121113104511.GA2362@cs.uni-bonn.de> <50A5F994.9080307@mu.org> <1C35F6E4-4A43-43C4-8256-17C58E8F8F01@hub.org> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:48:51 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Unified BSD? From: Tomas Bodzar To: Hub- FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Joost van de Griek , Alfred Perlstein , misc@openbsd.org, users@dragonflybsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, Ignatios Souvatzis , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: tomas.bodzar@gmail.com List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:48:53 -0000 On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Hub- FreeBSD 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). > > On 2012-11-16, at 12:30 AM, Alfred Perlstein 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 Bj=C3=B6rklin wrote: >>>> >>>>> Am I bat crap crazy for thinking it could be good to merge the four l= argest BSD variants out there, take the best bits and pieces out of each an= d 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, pr= ocess) >>> >>> -is >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"