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[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 11:16:07 +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:

> On So 21 Apr 2024 at 02:08, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> 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 they do not want to! They have different objectives and they are
> really different projects. Not at all comparable to Linux distributions.

And yet the range of variety they are able to offer, with their fragmented 
kernels, is only a small fraction of what Linux distros have achieved, 
with their unified kernel base.

The fact that the BSDs needed to make incompatible kernel changes to 
support their userland variants is simply an admission that that kernel 
wasn’t all that flexible to begin with.