From: dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org (Derek Fawcus)
Subject: [TUHS] Why BSD didn't catch on more, and Linux did
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 22:59:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180206225959.GA11642@accordion.employees.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGGBd_r3K9kPvuHuCavzaX6ZS8qh0wMpYwOFA4rPNOoK7XJFLw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 02:13:51PM -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> This was sort of true back when Linux came as 2 floppy images, but
> didn't remain true for very long.
Well I remember starting with the 0.12 root + boot disks, but the MCC
distribution (4 or 8 1.44M floppies?) became available not too long after.
At the time a colleague and I had been considering coughing up for
the BSDi distribution, but found Linux so played with it instead.
DF
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-06 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-06 22:13 Dan Stromberg
2018-02-06 22:38 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-06 22:44 ` Warner Losh
2018-02-06 22:59 ` Pete Wright
2018-02-06 22:59 ` Derek Fawcus [this message]
2018-02-07 1:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-06 23:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-07 0:22 ` Andy Kosela
2018-02-07 1:02 ` Robert Brockway
2018-02-07 3:47 ` George Michaelson
2018-02-07 1:29 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 15:13 ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-07 16:59 ` Jon Forrest
2018-02-07 17:27 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 19:21 ` Dan Cross
2018-02-07 21:24 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 19:31 ` Nemo
2018-02-07 19:49 ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-07 19:53 ` Dan Cross
2018-02-07 20:26 ` Theodore Ts'o
2018-02-07 21:06 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 21:31 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-07 17:52 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2018-02-07 8:04 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2018-02-07 8:51 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-02-07 8:27 ` Wesley Parish
2018-02-07 8:39 ` emanuel stiebler
2018-02-07 10:44 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-02-07 13:14 ` Chet Ramey
2018-02-07 14:42 ` Nemo
2018-02-09 2:53 ` Wesley Parish
2018-02-11 20:22 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-02-12 0:31 ` Robert Brockway
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