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How many BSDs will there be?
How many BSDs will there be?
Posted Sep 15, 2006 23:22 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)In reply to: How many BSDs will there be? by atai
Parent article: Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot (O'ReillyNet)
Does it matter? As long as each BSD has a community of developers and users (possibly the same people, possibly not) that care about the project, find the OS useful, and work well together, the size of that community doesn't matter.
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How many BSDs will there be?
Posted Sep 18, 2006 17:31 UTC (Mon) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link]
I lost interest in the *BSD's over a decade ago in large part because of the constant fragmentation and destructive infighting. Each fork made BSD weaker and less interesting to me. The outcome of all that strife and devision is pretty clear today.
The ideal thing for the BSD camp would be for somebody to grab a large majority of the BSD mind share. They aren't likely to overtake Linux, but they would become a much more viable alternate OS. And diversity of options is a good thing.