[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <v01sf0$338c$1 at dont-email.me>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 18:48:15 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
>> On 4/20/2024 6:27 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>> There are maybe half a dozen BSD variants still undergoing some kind of
>>> development, versus about 50× that number of Linux distros. Yet it is
>>> easier to move between Linux distros than it is to move between BSD
>>> variants.
>> 
>> You are comparing BSD's that are different OS'es (they do share
>> a lot of code but that is pick and choose) with
>> Linux distros that all run the same kernel but are available
>> in many different bundles.
>
>Why is it the Linux distros are able to maintain a common kernel, but the 
>BSDs are not? Aren’t the BSD kernels flexible enough for such different 
>uses? Which aren’t even that different, compared to how distinct the 
>various Linux distros can be?

Because Linus owns the trademark and controls what can be called Linux and
what cannot be.  Linus decides what goes into the kernel, and therefore
if he wants there to be one Linux kernal, there is.  If he wanted there to
be two, he could do that too.

I rather like the idea of having one person in charge of deciding what 
goes into the kernel and what does not, although I disagree philosophically
with Linus about many things that have gone into Linux in the past decade.

BSD is not like that.  There is no one person who decides what is BSD and
what is not.
--scott
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