[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at nz.invalid
Sun Jan 7 18:49:19 EST 2024


On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 16:22:45 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 1/7/2024 4:09 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> 
>> ... 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.
> 
> FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and their derivatives share some origin and
> share some code, but are more like different OS.

You are just repeating my point, without explaining *why* that is so. Why 
are the Linux distros better able to keep it together?



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