Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:51:09 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> Cc: Joost van de Griek <gyorpb@gmail.com>, misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@NetBSD.org, Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>, users@dragonflybsd.org Subject: Re: Unified BSD? Message-ID: <201211131751.qADHp9MW096913@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:34:56 %2B0100." <50A23E70.8010509@update.uu.se>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:34:56 +0100 > Message-id: <50A23E70.8010509@update.uu.se> Johnny Billquist wrote: > 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 No they were sequential from same team, not later parallel forks. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. Not: HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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