[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Bob Eager]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 23:09:20 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> 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.

You just carry on with your crusade.