[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/7/2024 4:09 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 12:48:25 +0000, chrisq wrote:
>> Been running FreeBSD for years now, Works out of the box on various
>> architectures and a base install takes  around 20 minutes.
> 
> The BSDs are a good illustration that the health of an open-source project
> doesn’t depend on how many users it has, but on the strength of
> contributions from the community.
> 
> Having said that, I am mystified and disappointed by the amount of
> fragmentation in the BSD world. There are maybe half a dozen BSD variants
> still in active use, and maybe 50 times that number of Linux distros. Yet
> it is easier to move between Linux distros than it is to move between BSD
> variants.

I think that is apples to oranges.

The Linux distros have the same kernel and to a very large extent
the same basic userland - the different distros has a different
installer, different logo, different high level packages installed
by default. No surprise that they feel similar. Maybe a little
exaggerated as there are a few different flavors of some things
like package manager and Gnome vs KDE, but it is really one OS.

FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and their derivatives share some origin
and share some code, but are more like different OS.

Arne