Which BSD flavor? On the same note, I take it your systems are very "I'm using the [whichever]BSD kernel and userland, but this is my own creation" as opposed

Which BSD flavor? On the same note, I take it your systems are very "I'm using the [whichever]BSD kernel and userland, but this is my own creation" as opposed to stock [whichever]BSD. A related tangential question: I've been on the fence about BSD distributions for a really long time, specifically the viability of maintaining them. The few that exist seem to end up forking the entire system, as opposed to just running off with the stock kernel and maybe doing package management differently. That puts huge pressure+responsibility on the person doing the fork. My question is, are things the way they are because people wanted to fork the kernel for a specific reason and their fork naturally pulled userspace along, or is there a specific reticence toward forking userspaces in the *BSD world?