From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: drsalists@gmail.com (Dan Stromberg) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 14:13:51 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Why BSD didn't catch on more, and Linux did Message-ID: IMO: 1) It kinda did catch on, in the form of macOS, but there was a time when it was nearly dead as the major vendors moved to System V. For some reason, Sun was the last major vendor to make the move, but they caught most of the flack. 2) I think the main reason BSD nearly died, was the AT&T lawsuit. At the time, Linux appeared to be a safer bet legally. 3) Linux got a reputation as an OS you had to be an expert to install, so lots of people started it to install it to "prove themselves". This was sort of true back when Linux came as 2 floppy images, but didn't remain true for very long. 4) I believe the SCO lawsuit "against Linux" was too little, too late to kill Linux's first mover advantage in the opensource *ix department. 5) I think FreeBSD's ports and similar huge-source-tree approaches didn't work out as well Linux developers contributing their changes upstream.