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Originally Posted by harisman View Post
Hi to all,

After many years working with open source OS's (Linuces and BSD's), I think that the BSD community tries to mimic Linux at its bads.

Currently there are these BSD distributions and counting: DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, PC-BSD, DesktopBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MirOS BSD, etc.. .
While this a very small list compared to the thousands of Linux flavors, since the BSD community is very small compared to the Linux one, I think that these projects should be merged somehow to provide a magnificent BSD operating system, to make it the best secure/multiplatform/fastest/stable operating system available.
You do not know much about BSDs nor what distribution is.

There are four separate BSD operating systems each one with the different very limited set of objectives. For instance DragonFly is trying to achieve kernel support for cluster computing full stop. Nothing else. It supports only i386. OpenBSD is security appliance and network tool. Everything else is extra stuff. They absolutely have nothing in common except that both can be used as desktop operating system.


There are lot more distributions but fortunately not in the Linux sense of that word (couple idiots are trying to put set of desktop packages they like). Distribution is customized installation of an Operating System. In Linux world
it is a bit more because Linux is just a kernel. So the distribution is also a choice of userland tools.


There were in total over 40 distros based on FreeBSD. Almost 20 based on OpenBSD and at least 3-4 based on NetBSD. Most of them are dead.

Active based on FreeBSD

1.m0n0wall
2.FreeNAS
3.pfSense
4.AskoziaPBX
5.NanoBSD
6.TrustedBSD
7.PC-BSD
8. MidnightBSD

Dead based on FreeBSD-u

1.BSDBox
2.BSDeviant
3.BSDLive
4.Bzerk CD
5.ClosedBSD
6.Damn Small BSD
7.Debian/kFreeBSD
8.DesktopBSD
9.EclipseBSD
10.Gentoo/FreeBSD
11.GingBSD
12.GuLIC-BSD
13.HamFreeSBIE
14.FenestrOS BSD
15.FreeBSDLive
16.FreeBSD LiveCD
17.FreeSBIE
18.Frenzy
19.NetBoz
20.miniBSD
21.PicoBSD
22.RelaxBSD
23.RoFreeSBIE
24.Snarl
25.TheWall
26.ThinBSD
27.Triance OS
28.TrueBSD
29. WarBSD
30.WiBSD
31.WiFiBSD
32.XORP

Active based on OpenBSD

1.ComixWall
2.flashdist
3.MirBSD
4. BowlFish
5.LiveCD made by jggimi's for Desktop demonstration
6.BSDanywhere
7.MarBSD

Dead based on OpenBSD-u

1.Anonym.OS
2.CD Bootable OpenBSD firewall
3.CompactBSD
4.ekkoBSD
5.EmBSD
6.Flashboot
7.Fugulta
8.MicroBSD
9.OliveBSD
10.OpenBSD Live-CD Firewall
11.PsygNAT
12.SONaFR
13.Quetzal



Each of active distros based on FreeBSD like m0n0wall, pFsense, FreeNAS, PC-BSD or AskoziaPBX is trying to solve specific problem.

m0n0wall is FreeBSD firewall for embedded devices. pFsense is FreeBSD firewall for regular PC, FreeNAS is network based storage, PC-BSD is BSD for incompetent Desktop users, and AskoziaPBX is Asterix server.


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Originally Posted by harisman View Post
Almost all of the above BSD's are trying to re-invent the wheel with different approaches, waisting development time and resources, instead of focusing their powers to fix crucial BSD problems and adding necessary functionalities that already exist in Linux or introduce new ones.

What is your opinion about this?
You do not know much about BSDs and about computers in general!

Last edited by Oko; 1st June 2009 at 07:17 AM.
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