16 Jul
2021
16 Jul
'21
7:35 a.m.
On Wed, 14 Jul 2021, Michael Kjörling wrote:
Could be; I got that news from one of those daily history sites (I don't
always trust Wikipedia).
In 1992,
386BSD is released by Lynne and William Jolitz, starting the
open source operating system movement (Linux didn't come along under
later).
Are you sure? Wikipedia claims that it happened the other way around;
that the Linux kernel initial release was 0.02 on 5 Oct 1991, while the
386BSD initial release was 0.0 on 12 March 1992. It seems that work on 386BSD began earlier than work
on Linux, but that
the initial release of Linux was earlier than the initial release of
386BSD.
That could be the source of the confusion.
-- Dave