From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 13 02:26:52 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 72B5EA5A for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:26:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin.kelly4000@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f54.google.com (mail-oa0-f54.google.com [209.85.219.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 283578FC16 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:26:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id n9so8660086oag.13 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:26:51 -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; bh=h3gIx5i8eFNPUPe/bN3bMB/8yb1YklNAe/xaMCe6P7Q=; b=OtQRuTiCeGocNwFcCnFogc+miRzaRefu006ea7n0cvMX5kQDaPN0yEPXPRZBM8hkVX FTYefOgirVXbd9tMI6zUU4c1uAg8svcn/Nfi3MtIxpR5ygYOSBq8p1YFUjNRzg9BE6qs W1BQ+ADfKi/d4l8VvWnSSpIf4j8LgpMumQho/qxDyW3wOrQzry4mn1WxjB8VUZ68qygc 1xNxbbGLQUDZ203p9UWgub3eoSOqI/s1YH/CbYK03BAX7OX+5MPbMJAM0EZlbkOkYPLH 4YjwTKzZZQSjLFSakMKiS19cEyw33JhjKrc1ZIo/fQBEhmwmkTbF3NGh0DLpa+Mayb3K 3nbA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.18.139 with SMTP id w11mr16683880obd.8.1352773611353; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:26:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.60.92.41 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:26:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7D4608B34C5B0D43A5D7C9F4E0BB9D75092A77A954@cecemx243.cec.root.careered.com> References: <7D4608B34C5B0D43A5D7C9F4E0BB9D75092A77A954@cecemx243.cec.root.careered.com> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:26:51 +1100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Unified BSD? From: Martin To: Justin Mayes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Robin_Bj=F6rklin?= , "misc@openbsd.org" , "users@dragonflybsd.org" , "netbsd-users@netbsd.org" , "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 02:26:52 -0000 The reason was actually intellectual property based between AT&T and the proprietary BSD/386 if your talking BSD4.4. That was the core reason for why FreeBSD and NetBSD started. So really it isn't that crazy, more highly unlikely that your going to get the core developers of each project to abandon years of work to start again on a unified BSD. It is a cool thought, one i have thought about. Which is why i reckon your far more likely to get support for a new BSD system that takes the foundation of one of the existing BSD's and create a project that aims for compatibility between the major BSD players. At least then its not like restarting. On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Justin Mayes wrote: > Yes, your bat crap crazy :-) > > All of these variants inherit from the same unified BSD 4.4 base code as > far > as I know. So years ago there were reasons that groups wanted to spilt o= ff > and focus on specific goals. Some of these goals are mutually exclusive. > These BSD variants are not really competing with each other or Linux for > that matter. > > > Justin Mayes > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of > Robin Bj=F6rklin > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 2:38 PM > To: users@dragonflybsd.org; netbsd-users@netbsd.org; > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Unified BSD? > > 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 > create > a Unified BSD? > > Kind Regards, > Robin Bjorklin > >