Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 21:10:41 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, chuck <chuck+troll@snew.com> Cc: Martin Horcicka <mhor5157@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, misc@openbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Why so many BSDs? Message-ID: <19991130211041.47577@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911300941390.77701-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from The Hermit Hacker on Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 09:42:36AM -0400 References: <19991130015905.A17153@yerkes.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911300941390.77701-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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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
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