i recall a prof who bought a mac becasue "it wasn't unix" and "it wasn't intel". that was years ago .... things have changed huh?
brucee On 4/4/06, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The whole AT&T vs. BSD lawsuit fiasco scared alot of people away from BSD. > > > > Professionals, maybe, but backyard hackers had little reason to care. > > I looked at Linux and at 386BSD (and QNX and BSDi) and 386BSD came up > > tops. Linux had no graphics (nor had the BSDs) and KA9Q as networking > > (so did the Unix PC, a little earlier, that's what I cut my teeth on), > > so there was some other factor there that I did not see, then or now. > > Crazily, it may have been the GNU licence, but I'm not convinced. > > > > I'll need to ask my Linux guru (CCed). > > > > ++L > > > > > > Alan Cox of Linux fame says he used linux because it had FP emulation. > (IIRC). Otherwise he'd have used 386BSD instead. >
