What is the FreeBSD situation?

[jmh530]

On Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 15:33:39 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
>
> But the only thing I can think of currently, that will 
> definitely "solve" the problem, is to treat each version as a 
> different OS with a new version statement. This doesn't scale 
> well, so I'm not sure if that's the road we want to go down.
>

That seems to be the road version statements are already going 
down...There is Playstation and Playstation4. There is SysV3 and 
SysV4. There are 5 different ARM versions. Posix groups together 
FreeBSD, OSX, Solaris, etc, which also exist on their own.