From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 7: 6:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2D014DB6 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:06:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991130211041.47577@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:10:41 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: The Hermit Hacker , chuck Cc: Martin Horcicka , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, misc@openbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Why so many BSDs? Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <19991130015905.A17153@yerkes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from The Hermit Hacker on Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 09:42:36AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 30 November 1999 at 9:42:36 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, chuck wrote: > >> At 08:27 AM 11/30/1999 +0100, Martin Horcicka wrote: >>> the thing I've never understood is why you are developing three BSD >> >> "You." The great BSD central commitee? >>> systems separately - well, they are not too separate because if one >>> system implements a thing the other two will probably port it. >>> >>> Wouldn't it be better to join the projects together and this way to more >>> effectively use your time, skills and energy? >> >> Well, there is one Windows. Monopolistic, no innovation, etc. >> >> There are about 12 leading Unixes. They each have different >> features and strengths. There are 3 BSD OpenSource Unix-alikes >> and I don't know how many Linux distributions, also Open Source. > > Last number I heard for "# of Linux distributions" was >70...I think some > guys dog did one or something silly like that *shrug* IIRC, Theo de Raadt once quoted 240 or 260 different Linuxes. I didn't find out where he got the number from. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message