Review of the 10 most popular distros

[Mike Garfias]

To muddy the waters a bit:

SunOS 4.x (aka Solaris 1) is BSD.  Some other commercial UNIXes are BSD
derived.  However, its too early for me to care about remembering which ones.

You _CAN_ strip the BSD kernel from BSD and run it with a linux dist.  See:
http://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/ for more info.  

Darrin Chandler spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> The differences between BSDs aren't easy for me to explain briefly and 
> still do them justice. There are some common characterizations out 
> there  such as OpenBSD is secure and NetBSD is portable, but OpenBSD is 
> almost as portable and NetBSD is pretty secure. While Linux is only the 
> kernel and the various distros make differing and complete systems, each 
> BSD is a complete integrated operating system. So you don't run *the* 
> BSD kernel and use the FreeBSD distro. Instead, you use FreeBSD which is 
> the whole tamale.