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