Re: BSD Fragmentation

On 2026-06-07, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jun 2026 21:00:40 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>> The man pages for BSD have examples and are mostly coherent. But
>> also, BSD is not subject to the high rate of random change that
>> linux is, and consequently the documentation tends to stay correct
>> for longer.
>
> And yet Linux can manage more disciplined changes that don’t do random
> things like break filesystem compatibility. This is why you can have
> 300 different Linux distros that will interoperate more freely than
> half a dozen BSD variants are able to manage.

You are wrong there. With GNU/Linux it's always the same kernel.
Every BSD has a different userland *and* kernel.
They are different *operating systems* alltogether.
On 'disciplined changes', good luck when bcachefs or btrfs hit mainline.
I remind you all AX25 support has been axed away because of
'mah security'.
Meanwhile OpenBSD for instance still supports old FS', protocols
and whatnot. Even plain X, FVWM, CWM and NetBSD still supports
*old* and *weird* non-PC video cards just because with NetBSD
you can have a 'backup computer' anywhere, even with older consoles.