1 Oct
2015
1 Oct
'15
7:48 a.m.
Who knew? Not me :O But those are all kind of "piddly" (sorry) ... I don't
think they have much "mindshare" or very many actual installations compared
to the top-line FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD ... and those BSD repackagers
don't have so much potential influence to argue over the basic direction of
*BSD, versus say, Red Hat might have with Linux ...
I would consider some like m0n0wall and pfSense exceptions because the goal
of the project is really to provide a pre-rolled security appliance rather
than an OS distribution proper ... same reason I wouldn't call PIAF a Linux
distribution, just a pre-rolled Asterisk appliance.
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
On 1 October 2015 at 02:34, Sean Caron <scaron at
umich.edu> wrote:
While there are a few "forks" of BSD,
there never was a proliferation of
various "distributions"; that is to say, there is only one, definitive
FreeBSD, one, definitive NetBSD and one, definitive OpenBSD. All are
significantly stripped of crud out of the box compared to Linux.
Well, there's one OpenBSD and one NetBSD.
Off the top of my head, FreeBSD has begotten:
* DragonflyBSD
* m0n0wall
* PC-BSD
* GhostBSD
* NeXT BSD
From some cursory research, there are also:
* MidnightBSD
* pfSense
* FreeSBIE
* DesktopBSD
Whether FreeNAS and NAS4Free count is open to interpretation.
There are others, too.
I have played with PC-BSD and GhostBSD, both of which I quite liked
but found too minimal for me compared to Linux. I thought MidnightBSD
was dead but apparently there's recently been a new release, which I
shall investigate.
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