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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Why BSD didn't catch on more, and Linux did
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 12:14:12 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1802071151340.50080@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180206225959.GA11642@accordion.employees.org>

On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Derek Fawcus wrote:

> At the time a colleague and I had been considering coughing up for the 
> BSDi distribution, but found Linux so played with it instead.

It would've been early Linux for me, but some personal issues stopped me 
from actually doing it (all I had to do was to collect the box -- a 386 -- 
that someone else had done for me) otherwise I would've learned to loathe 
Penguin/OS that much earlier :-)

As it was, $BOSS paid for my BSDi source licence, and when WinDriver 
bought them out and suppressed it I went to FreeBSD instead (after a brief 
tangle with some pompous OpenBSD jerks).

FreeBSD is still my main server (an ancient P4 at the moment, with a 
massive 512MB of memory; it used to be a Celery w/ 128MB) with MacBook and 
Debian clients.  And I really must repair the keyboard on the EeePC 701 
(running EeeBuntu) some day...

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-07  1:14 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
2018-02-07  1:14   ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
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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