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Crowding out OpenBSDCrowding out OpenBSDPosted Nov 14, 2012 4:00 UTC (Wed) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)Parent article: Crowding out OpenBSD
The BSD distributions have trouble coming up with enough developers to do the ports to their own systems... or to get Linux news editors to remember that they are mostly operating systems, not distributions (except for PC-BSD, which is a distribution of FreeBSD)
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Crowding out OpenBSD Posted Nov 14, 2012 4:26 UTC (Wed) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]
> ... or to get Linux news editors to remember that they are mostly operating systems, not distributions (except for PC-BSD, which is a distribution of FreeBSD)
Do you know what the 'D' in 'BSD' stands for?
Crowding out OpenBSD Posted Nov 14, 2012 7:18 UTC (Wed) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]
So is "BSD distribution" like a "PIN number" or "ATM machine"?
Crowding out OpenBSD Posted Nov 14, 2012 10:23 UTC (Wed) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654) [Link]
Exactly.
And it is also totally ambiguous nowadays and could mean any of: 4.4BSD, BSD Inc., BSD/OS, {Free,Net,Open,Dragonfly}BSD, and certainly other things I do not know of. Well, maybe that's a sign of celebrity.
Crowding out OpenBSD Posted Nov 22, 2012 23:16 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
How many BSD's are actually a BSD nowadays? Do they actually come from Berkeley?
Cheers,
Crowding out OpenBSD Posted Nov 14, 2012 7:28 UTC (Wed) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]
That's back when there was only one BSD. While I've seen references in *BSD project pages to distributions, when referring to major BSD variants the term used is normally operating system.
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