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
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