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."
next prev parent 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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