Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:16:34 -0600 From: "Steven Susbauer" <stupendoussteve@hotmail.com> To: mdh_lists@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Would Linux exist without the Internet? Message-ID: <BAY122-F408AF98EAD15DF22AE83B5BA220@phx.gbl>
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mdh wrote: >--- On Sat, 11/1/08, Darren Pilgrim <phi@evilphi.com> wrote: >>From: Darren Pilgrim <phi@evilphi.com> >>Subject: Re: Would Linux exist without the Internet? >>To: "Jayton Garnett" <jayton.garnett@gmail.com> >>Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org >>Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 6:30 PM >>Jayton Garnett wrote: >>>Would the Internet exist without BSD? >>>No. >>> >>>Would Linux exist without the Internet? :) >>>No. >>By extension: Linux wouldn't exist without BSD. :) > >I've seen a quote around attributed to Linus Torvalds, stating something >along the lines of "If I'd known about 386BSD back then, I probably >wouldn't have created Linux." > >So an inverse is true, as well - Linux wouldn't exist with BSD. Or >something. > >- mdh I believe it's from an old LinuxNews piece, from October 1992 - http://www.abc.se/~m9339/linux/linuxdoc/linuxnews03a.html "LN: How do you feel about Minix, 386BSD, and Hurd and their authors? Are they rivals, or or allies? Linus: 386BSD and Hurd are most definitely allies - I'll be happy to help them any way I can (for 386BSD I was already able to help with the math-emulator, and I've been in contact with some others re: vm86 etc). *If 386BSD had been available a year earlier, I would probably never have started on Linux*, but as it is, I'm happy to say that 386BSD didn't automatically mean that Linux wasn't worth it. Both 386BSD and Linux have their points, and I naturally think Linux is more fun." So there you have it, pull out your time machines. ;)
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