Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:58:09 -0400 From: Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions just like there are on Linux? Message-ID: <ygfk3bzkx4e.fsf@corbe.net> In-Reply-To: <53209DE0.6070705@infracaninophile.co.uk> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:48:16 %2B0000") References: <COL127-W1547F43A4D7DD207ACCB44E8760@phx.gbl> <53209DE0.6070705@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes: > On 03/12/14 17:12, Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos wrote: >> If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions >> just like there are on Linux? > Note though that 'distro' doesn't translate into *BSD terms in quite the > same way you'ld expect. FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, Darwin > are all *BSDs but they aren't distros in the Linux sense -- they are > complete stand-alone OSes. Things like PC-BSD and pfsense are arguably > 'distros' of FreeBSD. OpenBSD is arguably a distro of NetBSD.
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