Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:17:24 -0700 From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... Message-ID: <199704191817.LAA23491@kithrup.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970419143222.4592I-100000.kithrup.freebsd.chat@thelab.hub.org> References: <199704191714.NAA20555@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <Pine.NEB.3.96.970419143222.4592I-100000.kithrup.freebsd.chat@thelab.hub.org> Marc writes: >On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: >> How come Linux is so well-known? What in its history caused it to >> take the spotlight? > Pretty much the first *free* Unix-like operating system. I think >its only predecessor was Minix(?) It wasn't for about a year after I played >with Linux that I even heard of FreeBSD... Linux beat 386bsd out the door by a few months, maybe as much as a year. However, Bill Jolitz did not immediately make 386BSD available for ftp; linux was immediately available. So people outside of Silicon Valley did not hear about it in as much numbers as they heard about Linux. But that can be rectified. Remember, Linus now lives in the Bay Area. I know where he lives. I know where he works. I know what his cats look like. The ramifications are obvious. Bwahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha! Ahem. Back to my point. As an aside, if Linux networking had been usable at the time 386BSD came out, I would now be running linux, not freebsd. (And, frankly, if certain persons had not been running the netbsd systems, there's a good chance I'd be working with *that*. Don't you all feel special now? :))
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