No, and it never will, it's simply not the BSD way of doing things, nor is there any point, nor is it cobbled together by a bunch of randoms into "distros". BSD is single source and it just works, always has, always will. Linux people who have never actually USED a BSD simply don't understand the concept. That's unfortunate. But since BSD is opensource unix, you can always hack it to do whatever you want:)
What is BSD? Does BSD have a single repository somewhere or is it just a name that doesn't mean anything anymore? Can't we just talk about it as FreeBSD, OpenBSD etc. as separate entities? Because they are. There is no such thing called BSD anymore.
As I recall, BSD refers to BSD44 (or BSD v4.4), which I believe is the first version of Berkley Software Distribution [Unix] that was certified did not contain any of the SysV Unix code. Code that the university had obtained from Bell Labs for originally for training purposes. As I recall, there was a huge court battle over this in the 90s. Various pundits claim that if BSD had not been tied up in courts, hackers would not have taken an interest in the Minix clone, Linux. Then again, Linux had quite the
Ok, it's not Free-as-in-beer, but is it Free-as-in-speech? In other words, is it licensed under any of the BSD licenses out there?
I agree w/ the GP - we might as well talk about FreeBSD. Most of the BSD 'distros' out there - DragonFly, Midnight, Ghost, pFsense, et al are based on FreeBSD. Only thing based on NetBSD that I know of is OpenBSD, which has diverged quite a bit since it split. And OpenBSD just has one distro based on itself - I forget the name - the one that was made in order to be made from LLVM/Clang
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Does it use systemd?
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No, and it never will, it's simply not the BSD way of doing things, nor is there any point, nor is it cobbled together by a bunch of randoms into "distros". BSD is single source and it just works, always has, always will. Linux people who have never actually USED a BSD simply don't understand the concept. That's unfortunate. :)
But since BSD is opensource unix, you can always hack it to do whatever you want
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I agree w/ the GP - we might as well talk about FreeBSD. Most of the BSD 'distros' out there - DragonFly, Midnight, Ghost, pFsense, et al are based on FreeBSD. Only thing based on NetBSD that I know of is OpenBSD, which has diverged quite a bit since it split. And OpenBSD just has one distro based on itself - I forget the name - the one that was made in order to be made from LLVM/Clang