4 Jun
2022
4 Jun
'22
12:16 a.m.
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> writes:
What were the differences? The BSD projects were:
- 386bsd: run by Jolitz, with no input from anyone else
- NetBSD: forked from 386bsd, run by Chris de Metriou as a
cooperative effort between a host of indviduals (me included)
- FreeBSD: forked from NetBSD almost immediately, by a group of
contributors who felt that performance and device support on the Intel
platform was more important than maintaining hardware portability
- OpenBSD: forked from NetBSD after de Raadt established a kind of
record by being kicked off both the NetBSD and FreeBSD mailing lists.
I'm open to contradicting arguments, but I do feel that the BSD platform
was a much better starting point back then, and ought to have won - but
Linux, while inferior, was available and non-threatening.
-tih
--
Most people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance
of Lisp. Lisp is the most important idea in computer science. --Alan Kay
I do not
agree. Linux won because BSD was embroiled in litigation.
Like I said, we experienced that differently. In my opinion, people lean
on the litigation excuse when they don't want to admit that *BSD was not
a good way to do operating system development.