I'm still going to argue the point, there are no distributions in the sense of Linux. There's just "FreeBSD".
"BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution"
You're being pedantic here, again, I meant it in the context of linux distributions (that's what most people coming to FreeBSD are familiar with when they say things like, "I don't like the installer, I'll try another distribution!").
"PC-BSD: based on FreeBSD"
Right, this is the only thing I would say comes close to the general "idea" of linux style distributions - but I still think it is inaccurate to say that there are "distributions" of FreeBSD. PC-BSD even has its own kernel modifications in order to make it more desktop friendly - I would classify this as its own "BSD" IMHO (much as DragonFly was "based" on FreeBSD until they decided to completely fork it) even though it still relies heavily on the FreeBSD project.
"BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution"
You're being pedantic here, again, I meant it in the context of linux distributions (that's what most people coming to FreeBSD are familiar with when they say things like, "I don't like the installer, I'll try another distribution!").
"PC-BSD: based on FreeBSD"
Right, this is the only thing I would say comes close to the general "idea" of linux style distributions - but I still think it is inaccurate to say that there are "distributions" of FreeBSD. PC-BSD even has its own kernel modifications in order to make it more desktop friendly - I would classify this as its own "BSD" IMHO (much as DragonFly was "based" on FreeBSD until they decided to completely fork it) even though it still relies heavily on the FreeBSD project.