From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 13:52:56 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 AF695871 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:52:56 +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 011B98FC12 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:52:54 +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 1A9936279C; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:52:46 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <50A64530.2080808@update.uu.se> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:52:48 +0100 From: Johnny Billquist User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tomas.bodzar@gmail.com Subject: Re: Unified BSD? References: <20121113104511.GA2362@cs.uni-bonn.de> <50A5F994.9080307@mu.org> <1C35F6E4-4A43-43C4-8256-17C58E8F8F01@hub.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Joost van de Griek , Alfred Perlstein , misc@openbsd.org, Hub- FreeBSD , users@dragonflybsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, Ignatios Souvatzis , freebsd-chat@freebsd.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: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:52:56 -0000 On 2012-11-16 12:48, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Hub- FreeBSD wrote: >> >> Actually, according to what we are tracking at http://bsdstats.org, there are currently *8*: >> >> PC-BSD >> FreeBSD >> PYC-BSD (aka Rus-BSD) >> DesktopBSD >> OpenBSD >> NetBSD >> DragonflyBSD >> MidnightBSD >> > > Tracking something like DesktopBSD which doesn't exist for quite a > long time make statistics not much useful. MidnightBSD seems to be > same case as last activy on mailing list last year in May, forums > doesn't working at all so we are still on 4 core BSDs > (Open/Net/Free/Dfly). I find it rather meaningless as a tracking tool for BSD in general. There is no way something like 2BSD would ever appear there, no matter how many systems were installed. And I also do happen to consider OS-X to be a BSD system. :-) Johnny > >> >> On 2012-11-16, at 12:30 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> >>> On 11/13/12 2:45 AM, 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