[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/7/2024 6:49 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro 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.

Text you forgot to quote:

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

I did explain. You just did not quote the explanation.

All the Linux distros are based on the same kernel project,
same GNU core utils etc..

Arne