Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:24:20 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: unknown@riverstyx.net (Tani Hosokawa), brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? Message-ID: <199907231424.HAA22103@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:19:19 -0000." <199907221719.KAA07206@usr05.primenet.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>> > In fact, BSD UNIX in general would be far ahead, because it has been around >> > longer. >> >> I'm curious -- How long has FreeBSD existed? > >FreeBSD is a direct descendent of a planned 0.5 interim release of >386BSD. It was released as FreeBSD when Bill Jolitz denied the >use of the 386BSD trademark in order to prevent the release, and >backed out of the agreement whereby the 0.5 interim release was >being prepared. The denial came about as a result of a firestorm >on Usenet, touched off by Lynne Jolitz. > >As a derivative work of 386BSD 0.1, FreeBSD can properly be said >to have existed as long as 386BSD existed, even though the 2.x >code branch is 4.4BSD-Lite derived and contains no 386BSD code. > >In other words, FreeBSD dates to 1991. 386BSD 0.0 was released in March 1992. 0.1 didn't come out until mid-92. FreeBSD 1.0 was released in Q4 1993. The first release of Linux was two years earlier. We also had the USL lawsuit set us back a fair bit. The point is that although the codebase is much older than Linux, BSD was released to the public well after Linux was. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199907231424.HAA22103>