From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60604030730o16e46789xfc171a4109180f74@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:30:29 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <283f5df10604021316l31fd4ea4k38df941ff7094e6f@mail.gmail.com> Cc: chippo@rmbam.co.za Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2d2038f0-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 4/2/06, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > The whole AT&T vs. BSD lawsuit fiasco scared alot of people away from B= SD. > > Professionals, maybe, but backyard hackers had little reason to care. > I looked at Linux and at 386BSD (and QNX and BSDi) and 386BSD came up > tops. Linux had no graphics (nor had the BSDs) and KA9Q as networking > (so did the Unix PC, a little earlier, that's what I cut my teeth on), > so there was some other factor there that I did not see, then or now. > Crazily, it may have been the GNU licence, but I'm not convinced. > > I'll need to ask my Linux guru (CCed). > > ++L > > Alan Cox of Linux fame says he used linux because it had FP emulation. (IIRC). Otherwise he'd have used 386BSD instead.