Talk:GNU/NetBSD

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From Wikipedia:Merge: Wikipedia is not a dictionary; there doesn't need to be a separate entry for every concept in the universe ... If an article is very short and cannot or should not be expanded terribly much, it often makes sense to merge it with an article on a broader topic.

I don't think this article is going to become large any time soon. It will probably never grow large, but if that does happen, I'm certain enough that it will not be in the near future. There is a page about a similar topic: GNU/FreeBSD, and that page isn't much bigger than this one. I would like to suggest merging these two articles, but to what name? The unified article should remain open ended so that if a GNU system with the OpenBSD kernel comes into existance, it will also fit on the unified page. "GNU Operating Systems with BSD kernels"? "GNU Operating System variants" or "GNU Operating Systems with alternative kernels" and then in the opening line say "for linux-based variants, see GNU/Linux? Suggestions very welcome. Gronky 15:01, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Normal GNU (with the Hurd) and GNU/Linux are very common and deserver their own page. Let's just make this an article about any minor GNU/$kernel. These would be GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/kNetBSD and maybe GNU/OpenSolaris aswell, though that one might be large enough to justify its own article. (Nexenta is quite active, from what I understand, but I'm not sure about that.) Geronimooo 15:40, 27 November 2005 (UTC)