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Crowding out OpenBSDCrowding out OpenBSDPosted Nov 14, 2012 4:26 UTC (Wed) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)In reply to: Crowding out OpenBSD by salimma Parent article: Crowding out OpenBSD
> ... 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?
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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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