Re: Unified BSD?
Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
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On 2012-11-13 18:51, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, > Reference: >> From: Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:34:56 +0100 >> Message-id: <[email protected]> > > 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 <[email protected]> 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. Not so fast... 2BSD and BSD 4 are definitely parallel, almost to this day, I'd say... Well, BSD 4 has been sortof dead for a number of years now, but 2BSD is not entirely so dead yet. And things were back- and forwardported between the two for a while. Johnny