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From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
To: Joost van de Griek <gyorpb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Unified BSD?
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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. 

	-is