From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 22:32:56 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 D8154E0A for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:32:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vb0-f54.google.com (mail-vb0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 766728FC14 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:32:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f54.google.com with SMTP id l1so8839887vba.13 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:32:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tIKKdnmQUNAlYshrqJZj9oJEeLixJk1QCycpEHNteL8=; b=AOalYM4+m5yVb+aJNR9NTmUwogex8kpsHCv4kDpdqJzbr3XKsNvZ59XPbgG6s5VP9B PVZAA+HUMOn1NROAFi68LB7yqlK5JQWVsTrneZsDDug8hUczeWyj9Nq6DH/keQxeX1FG N3UF51it+MUqWOlZPivcpR31VtoWbRgMMQZmp0nDolxcU410+DIr85SRrDPhF9A/rQyU ugImpoQSsvzpNRXQ6FoNpFErHulbHl+pEf8Aosnh/6rnHu2FMyvcmVvNesKtSbVX2QyN DNJLwAW3cqeeFEJeXJ4UReWAXMM+n4eKxvmR8V6yRsNPTxpHKPEpnnFxH6ba6juBLE5Q X/fg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.89.146 with SMTP id bo18mr23784432vdb.33.1352759575686; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:32:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.58.221.230 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:32:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:32:55 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Unified BSD? From: pete wright To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Robin_Bj=F6rklin?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: misc@openbsd.org, users@dragonflybsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, 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: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:32:57 -0000 On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Robin Bj=F6rklin wrote: > > > Am I bat crap crazy for thinking it could be good to merge the four large= st > BSD variants out there, take the best bits and pieces out of each and > create a Unified BSD? > you are not crazy for thinking this, and fortunately there is nothing prohibiting you from doing so (or a collective group of people, or company etc...). One thing you will see in the BSD Unix systems is there is quite a bit of cross pollination between projects. The largest example current example of this from my perspective is support for OpenBSD's "pf" packet filter in FreeBSD. This is a packet filter built to suit the OpenBSD developers goals, but it did not restrict FreeBSD from supporting this packet filter and hopefully both projects benefit from this collaboration (wider code exposure of the pf code, and wider choice of packet filters for FreeBSD users). My opinion is that with the current state of the BSD's this is one of its stronger suits - we have multiple projects right now building entire operating systems to suit each of the projects stated goals and developer wishes. this would be opposed to gnu/linux where you are cobbling together many disparate sources to build your distribution (some of which will have goals that may not line up with your goals). with this diversity we still cross pollinate ideas and methods, but are still allowed to spend our limited resources focusing on our projects core goals. -pete --=20 pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA