Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Ignatios Souvatzis
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.bjork...@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

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Joar Jegleim
I just can't resist the urge to point to this comic strip, which an other FreeBSD users posted regarding : hey let's create a FreeBSD desktop, like Ubuntu did with Unity http://xkcd.com/927/ -- -- Joar Jegleim Homepage: http://cosmicb.no Linkedin:

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Lars Engels
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:45:11AM +0100, 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.bjork...@gmail.com wrote: Am I bat crap crazy for thinking it could be good to merge the four

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Ignatios Souvatzis
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:04:27PM +0100, Lars Engels wrote: MirBSD / MirOS is dead: http://www.freshbsd.org/search?project=mirbsd Last commit: 2011-08-29 23:00:00 I'm no Mir* co-worker, so take this with a grain of salt. But on general principles: a) I question the date itself - that's

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Jakub Lach
mksh is certainly not, and I use it daily on FreeBSD and really like it. The same I could say about openntpd from OpenBSD. Isn't it like it should be then? -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Unified-BSD-tp5760356p5760566.html Sent from the freebsd-chat

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
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.bjork...@gmail.com wrote: Am I bat crap crazy for thinking it could be good to merge the four largest BSD variants out there,

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Martin
No offense Ignatios Souvatzis but your reference to Minix being a 7th BSD distro is like saying FreeBSD (or any of the other major BSDs) is another Linux because of its inter-compatibility for certain user-land components and various shared code. Minix has a minimal amount of NetBSD code and most

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 13 November 2012 07:04, Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:45:11AM +0100, 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.bjork...@gmail.com wrote: Am I bat

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Johan Beisser
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Ignatios Souvatzis ignat...@cs.uni-bonn.de wrote: 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

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Johnny Billquist b...@update.uu.se Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:34:56 +0100 Message-id: 50a23e70.8010...@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

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Johnny Billquist wrote: 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...) No they were sequential from same team, not

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread matthew sporleder
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Robin Björklin robin.bjork...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! First and foremost I'd like to present myself, I'm a young and naive junior sys admin that think people should be able to compromise and see the bigger picture and the good of the cause. Now over to the

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2012-11-13 18:51, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From: Johnny Billquist b...@update.uu.se Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:34:56 +0100 Message-id: 50a23e70.8010...@update.uu.se Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2012-11-13 11:45, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: On Tue, Nov 13,