Who knew? Not me :O But those are all kind of "piddly" (sorry) ... I don't think they have much "mindshare" or very many actual installations compared to the top-line FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD ... and those BSD repackagers don't have so much potential influence to argue over the basic direction of *BSD, versus say, Red Hat might have with Linux ...
I would consider some like m0n0wall and pfSense exceptions because the goal of the project is really to provide a pre-rolled security appliance rather than an OS distribution proper ... same reason I wouldn't call PIAF a Linux distribution, just a pre-rolled Asterisk appliance. Best, Sean On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 October 2015 at 02:34, Sean Caron <sca...@umich.edu> wrote: > > While there are a few "forks" of BSD, there never was a proliferation of > > various "distributions"; that is to say, there is only one, definitive > > FreeBSD, one, definitive NetBSD and one, definitive OpenBSD. All are > > significantly stripped of crud out of the box compared to Linux. > > Well, there's one OpenBSD and one NetBSD. > > Off the top of my head, FreeBSD has begotten: > * DragonflyBSD > * m0n0wall > * PC-BSD > * GhostBSD > * NeXT BSD > > From some cursory research, there are also: > * MidnightBSD > * pfSense > * FreeSBIE > * DesktopBSD > > Whether FreeNAS and NAS4Free count is open to interpretation. > > There are others, too. > > I have played with PC-BSD and GhostBSD, both of which I quite liked > but found too minimal for me compared to Linux. I thought MidnightBSD > was dead but apparently there's recently been a new release, which I > shall investigate. > > -- > Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven > MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven > Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) >