Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:44:41 +0100 From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: Joost van de Griek <gyorpb@gmail.com>, misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@NetBSD.org, Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>, users@dragonflybsd.org Subject: Re: Unified BSD? Message-ID: <50A2DB69.8070902@update.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <201211131751.qADHp9MW096913@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201211131751.qADHp9MW096913@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On 2012-11-13 18:51, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, > Reference: >> From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> >> 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 <robin.bjorklin@gmail.com> 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
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