19 Jan
2020
19 Jan
'20
7:48 p.m.
I don't remember, to be honest, I don't think so. When it first was
released which was before Linus's famous announcement, the ftp site was
from ucbvax and any UCB licensee that asked for got sent a copy of the URL
but you had to ask for it.
It was not a well kept secret. When the BSDi / UCB vs ATT came later, as
Larry said a lot of us who were primarily driven by wanting a 'real unix'
for the 386 thought it was about copyright and that's when we looked at
Linux. Then it came out that was a TS suit and many of us switched back
because Linux lacked networking and X11
On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 8:26 AM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso(a)mit.edu> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 02:58:08PM +1100, Greg
'groggy' Lehey wrote:
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Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
Sorry, I was wrong. That particular article was number 16 of the 18
part series, as shown at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/386BSD#Further_reading. It does raise
the question why the Dr Dobb's search engine didn't find any of them.
Out of curiosity, did the articles contain download information for a
bootable copy of 386BSD?
- Ted