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Also group BSDs on the download page? #349

Closed vszakats closed 1 month ago

vszakats commented 1 month ago

Grouping Linux distros next to each other made the list eaiser to parse. It made me wonder if doing the same for BSD might be similarly useful?

Like: BSD - Dragonfly BSD BSD - FreeBSD BSD - MidnightBSD BSD - NetBSD BSD - OpenBSD

That leaves macOS, which can also be considered BSD though perhaps not everyone would be looking for it under that category.

Just an idea, that I though to put up here to give it our shared thoughts.

dfandrich commented 1 month ago

My understanding is that the different *BSDs are essentially completely independent these days, forked from a common ancestor (386BSD) up to 40 years ago. Analogously, I was informed that illumos is already, after many fewer years, so far removed from Solaris that it should be pulled out of the Solaris umbrella title on the downloads page. At some point, most things on that page go back to one or two ancestors but that's not that useful a distinction in that context, IMHO. Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution#/media/File:Unix_history-simple.svg even the most recent BSD derivative listed there (Dragonfly BSD) is already a quarter century removed from its ancestor (FreeBSD).

vszakats commented 1 month ago

Thanks for your feedback Dan.

Got it, so macOS isn't the only outlier in this regard, and all BSDs are fairly different. This reduces grouping to mere aesthetics, which isn't as much useful, or potentially confusing.

Closing this as not something we want to do.