From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 12:14:12 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Why BSD didn't catch on more, and Linux did In-Reply-To: <20180206225959.GA11642@accordion.employees.org> References: <20180206225959.GA11642@accordion.employees.org> Message-ID: 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."