Yes, your bat crap crazy :-) All of these variants inherit from the same unified BSD 4.4 base code as far as I know. So years ago there were reasons that groups wanted to spilt off and focus on specific goals. Some of these goals are mutually exclusive. These BSD variants are not really competing with each other or Linux for that matter. Justin Mayes -----Original Message----- From: owner-misc%openbsd.org@localhost [mailto:owner-misc%openbsd.org@localhost] On Behalf Of Robin Björklin Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 2:38 PM To: users%dragonflybsd.org@localhost; netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost; freebsd-chat%freebsd.org@localhost; misc%openbsd.org@localhost Subject: Unified BSD? 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 reason for my post. As all of you probably know there's a lot of buzz around Gnu/Linux these days and I'm pretty sure you couldn't care less. What I'm wondering is why the BSD community which from what I can gather isn't as big as the Linux community have decided to split their resources into several different projects/forks/distributions. To me it seems *BSD would be in a more competitive shape if all developers would get in under one roof? 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 create a Unified BSD? Kind Regards, Robin Bjorklin
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