On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:30:57PM +0800, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
[...]
>
> It makes you wonder why BSD never seems to have achieved the level of
> popularity Linux enjoys. The Jolitzes had a great big head start over
> Linus Torvalds in making a working system, apparently, but it seems
> Linux won. Or why Linux exists in spite of the existence of the
> BSD-derived Unixes, which are almost as Free as Linux is (Linux is GNU,
> BSD has a more liberal license), if the argument in this paragraph is
> true.
>
well according to jkh's (Jordan K. Hubbard - founder of FreeBSD) history
of BSD and FreeBSD, the reason Linux took off was that it was free back
then before the Jolitzes manage to free BSD from AT&T. there were only
a few lines of code still left which held BSD until the time Novell
bought USL and release BSD as apparently Novell isn't interested in
Unix. i think the time was around 1994 or 1995 so you can see by that
time there were already thousands of Linux users as opposed to BSD which
were confined to academia and businesses.
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