[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Scott Dorsey]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>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?

Because Red Hat and Debian are both really big and are able to push around
the rest of the distributions.
--scott
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