From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 386BSD released
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 11:35:57 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2107161127480.32008@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
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On Wed, 14 Jul 2021, Michael Kjörling wrote:
>> In 1992, 386BSD is released by Lynne and William Jolitz, starting the
>> open source operating system movement (Linux didn't come along under
>> later).
>
> Are you sure? Wikipedia claims that it happened the other way around;
> that the Linux kernel initial release was 0.02 on 5 Oct 1991, while the
> 386BSD initial release was 0.0 on 12 March 1992.
Could be; I got that news from one of those daily history sites (I don't
always trust Wikipedia).
> It seems that work on 386BSD began earlier than work on Linux, but that
> the initial release of Linux was earlier than the initial release of
> 386BSD.
That could be the source of the confusion.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-16 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-13 22:28 Dave Horsfall
2021-07-14 7:54 ` Michael Kjörling
2021-07-14 8:19 ` Angus Robinson
2021-07-14 8:32 ` Michael Kjörling
2021-07-14 9:07 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-07-14 14:09 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-14 14:54 ` Warner Losh
2021-07-14 15:06 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-14 15:37 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-07-14 10:09 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-07-14 10:39 ` arnold
2021-07-14 17:21 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-07-14 17:32 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-14 15:01 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-14 17:40 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-14 17:50 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-14 18:28 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-14 11:49 ` [TUHS] " Andy Kosela
2021-07-14 15:48 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-16 1:35 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2021-07-16 2:33 ` risner
2021-07-16 4:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-16 5:51 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-16 13:00 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-16 13:56 ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-16 14:40 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-16 15:44 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-16 16:11 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-16 19:07 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-07-16 20:17 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-16 20:24 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-18 13:13 ` arnold
2021-07-18 13:23 ` Richard Salz
2021-07-18 13:43 ` [TUHS] MtXinu calendar (was Re: 386BSD released) Al Kossow
2021-07-18 13:51 ` Al Kossow
2021-07-18 16:44 ` Al Kossow
2021-07-18 17:38 ` John Cowan
2021-07-18 18:35 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-19 3:06 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-07-18 19:00 ` arnold
2021-07-18 21:48 ` Deborah Scherrer
2021-07-18 20:06 ` Lyle Bickley
2021-07-14 21:37 ` [TUHS] 386BSD released Bakul Shah
2021-07-16 21:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-07-15 2:21 Douglas McIlroy
2021-07-15 2:41 ` Adam Thornton
2021-07-15 15:07 ` Clem Cole
2021-07-16 17:30 Nelson H. F. Beebe
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