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im not sure, but as I read, free/net/openbsd takes their roots all before '95, all after 90'. as im thinking, that if the separation is that early, do they really share some code? as i understood, netbsd and openbsd are far more closer (and code sharing) than both with freebsd, which share few code with darwin. my wonder would be : when some people easily compares bsd family to others unixes (classic ones, or even "newer ones such as redox, haiku, etc..), they may think that all BSD have few differences. But having in mind that they separate almost all at the beginning : does they share "that many" code, especially regarding freebsd? thank you |
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The simple answer is that ecosystems like the FOSS and OS communities are inherently inbred and incestuous. Everything is a fork of a fork of a UNIX clone. The codebases are usually similar because, quite frankly, there's not a lot "wrong" or that requires much changing. Forking, generally speaking, is ideologically-driven. While the projects themselves might not be inherently political, technical implementation and long-term vision for projects is, and oftentimes when people cannot come to consensus and when there is a big enough rift as a result, forks happen.
NetBSD is similar to OpenBSD because NetBSD was what Theo de Raadt worked on before he got exiled from the project for being a terror in the mailing lists and to work with according to developers in the NetBSD camp. Linus Torvalds has also said so as well, which kind of sounds like the pot calling the kettle a pot IMO. Eventually de Raadt forked it and took the project his own direction and set his own standards. Now people work around his vision and there's no possibility of a coup. FreeBSD has a larger gap because of the three it doesn't really share that history, it's just kind of the "everyman", non-specialized de factor non-Linux option. It's a similar deal with Linux; there are distributions that are more or less the same but exist in their own space because a few people just liked taking a similar distribution in a slightly, but still very much adjacent path as the distro they forked from. There's not a lot of difference between many Linux distros except different logos, names, and maintainers. People just kind of like being able to control the fate of the software they rely on, which I sympathize with. If you can basically just coast on the codebase that's available to you and make different implementations that make sense to you, why make yourself beholden to the arbitrary dealings of strangers? If you've got the technical skill and the time, do it yourself. |
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Apart from their individual visions of where they are going, like Linux, they have different package management systems.
Most users just choose one, & stick with it, they don't 'distro hop' like some people do with Linux, there aren't so many variants, & most people who choose BSD know how to get what they want.
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![]() found that, to explain the "thesus" quote, few weeks ago (i didnt understood it at that time): Quote:
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As for Thesus, that comes from a philosphical question, a quick glance at Wikipedia shows that it was in Plutarch. The question is that if the ship that Thesus used is replaced, bit by bit, for example, first replace one mast, then one sail, until, at the end, no part of the old ship remains, it's all replaced by newer pieces of wood, etc., the question becomes is it still the ship of Thesus or is it a completely new ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus |
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I studied the Classics so I always preferred Trigger's Broom:
http://foolsandhorses.weebly.com/triggers-broom.html ![]()
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