From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 13 16:45:22 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 1DD9B5B8 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:45:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA9F68FC12 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:45:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k10so14252639iea.13 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:45:21 -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:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zlt3xArozr4X2Q/cqSN+9OF4+99fEfnsArkPDjoD6EE=; b=BZgA4J6vGdzhx3n+t5CIud1IyIwVLMkinV/MuuY7U0tDF/6otuZplsFhDvkrgDCGHg Xz9uLOIC0OUbZVYxBHj2GIRkgP76PsXu5cNRka91tNTBmjvLnkmkwMO/dIQYW3gJmViz 0PCfmrFQe5yFXtyZfqPORw9nOJhN9iguaE2QAQdDHqF/uQreE9ZkyKQnHcJAolI7JjAv xnY2DKkJfVCzkSw85aKNCM1sdNXLtkeiW08N9nkWI+MPILsQ+DTOfT3QVQkH9LOu0TEu /KVMkRHfJzmfJGvgHE4u9D6ciJXGv4HP4mmP3GQ3oLF3DBZGdqGznGuzxOdDiKE2UscM 8FYQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.108.145 with SMTP id hk17mr1391448igb.51.1352825121252; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:45:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.30.11 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:45:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20121113120427.GE96846@e-new.0x20.net> References: <20121113104511.GA2362@cs.uni-bonn.de> <20121113120427.GE96846@e-new.0x20.net> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:45:20 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Unified BSD? From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Lars Engels Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Joost van de Griek , misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, Ignatios Souvatzis , users@dragonflybsd.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 16:45:22 -0000 On 13 November 2012 07:04, Lars Engels wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:45:11AM +0100, 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=F6rklin 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 a= nd 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. >> > > MirBSD / MirOS is dead: > > http://www.freshbsd.org/search?project=3Dmirbsd > > Last commit: 2011-08-29 23:00:00 Latest looks like 20120911 via http://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS/current/ Also, mksh (I use this on gentoo) & jupp (a fork of joe: I still use the ol jstar for word processing) are both regularly worked upon. In any case (getting back to the Original Troll), the various BSD projects regularly borrow code from each other, so I hardly see the point. --=20 --