Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:34:56 +0100 From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de> Cc: Joost van de Griek <gyorpb@gmail.com>, misc@openbsd.org, users@dragonflybsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unified BSD? Message-ID: <50A23E70.8010509@update.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20121113104511.GA2362@cs.uni-bonn.de> References: <CAOc%2B9seWtWaw=bx%2BKwjKXjULArijgcvbDR1gi_J%2BSQkFfsHTCA@mail.gmail.com> <AE3F3CAD-1785-4363-8266-AC11775A52DF@gmail.com> <20121113104511.GA2362@cs.uni-bonn.de>
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On 2012-11-13 11:45, 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 what about 2BSD, BSD 3 and BSD 4 with all their releases? (And I assume that there was probably something that in retrospect would have been called 1BSD as well...) Johnny
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