From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44312738.8040008@coraid.com> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 09:46:32 -0400 From: Brantley Coile User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2d0c99d0-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 BSDi was the way I went in those days before Plan 9 was released. It was cheap, it had all the source and it was easier to install than the other systems I'd played with. But as soon as I could switch back to plan 9 .... lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: >>The whole AT&T vs. BSD lawsuit fiasco scared alot of people away from BSD. > > > 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 >