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I understand when the BSDs are forked they become their own thing. I guess my question was more about something like Debian. Ubuntu is based on Debian. PopOS a

I understand when the BSDs are forked they become their own thing. I guess my question was more about something like Debian. Ubuntu is based on Debian. PopOS and Mint are built off of Ubuntu. They are all separate, but still pull the code from their upstream. Why isn't there a situation like that with the BSDs? As far as I know the only ones that exist like that are GhostBSD and HardenedBSD.

boomboomsubban 3y ago
With Linux, there was an independent need for a "pull from upstream" model, so one was built then further developed. That wasn't necessary for the BSD's, and by the time someone would consider rolling their own "distro" they would probably already be part of the FreeBSD project. A part of it is certainly userbase size, but the project seems to allow more competition while still being part of FreeBSD. An example, FreeBSD ships with three different firewalls. With Linux, each one would probably have built their own distro with that being the key difference between them.