From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 13 23:44:45 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 82A6F7A0 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:44:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bqt@update.uu.se) Received: from GW.SoftJAR.SE (static-213-115-73-154.sme.bredbandsbolaget.se [213.115.73.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49D18FC12 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:44:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-172-28-211-120.zrh.corp.google.com (unknown [74.125.57.33]) by GW.SoftJAR.SE (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B97562794; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:44:42 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <50A2DB69.8070902@update.uu.se> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:44:41 +0100 From: Johnny Billquist User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Julian H. Stacey" Subject: Re: Unified BSD? References: <201211131751.qADHp9MW096913@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <201211131751.qADHp9MW096913@fire.js.berklix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 23:44:45 -0000 On 2012-11-13 18:51, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, > Reference: >> From: Johnny Billquist >> 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 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