From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Dec 11 08:15:59 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3811325E5A for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:15:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0AFAA8A4A2 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:15:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1544516158; x=1547108158; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=93fQvDCsRouiEgFArkerg37C/qCFZdP45v2jrdjecgk=; b=dVIKcoo93+kJMwfqQj14rQekqGrBSszDqBHJVtbs9h2N8InIHzNNcpq6g4IPRQa81cRdiWPzNPaanaQ9gmejCqIte+3Y5JG3CjhOCzcNjkclG8N61RrTNBdkJ7i5YASKOcZv4dK/mm7z+MnWysH9OfcaJsn1QgTlVEx+QxoZLP4= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xYTEwMDAwMDIwN2IwNmMuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r4.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r4.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com [52.5.202.82]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Tue, 11 Dec 2018 03:15:41 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r4.us-east.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Tue, 11 Dec 2018 03:15:41 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.91 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1gWdCd-0007lU-Cs for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:15:39 +0000 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:15:39 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd or linux Message-Id: <20181211081539.2b4131f00305fc85e60527a8@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20181211041849.GA75666@geeks.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 0AFAA8A4A2 X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.13 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.75)[-0.745,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; FORGED_SENDER_VERP_SRS(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.98)[-0.980,0]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[mxbh.socketlabs.com,mxbsg.socketlabs.com]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[198.176.0.142.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.15.0]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.21)[-0.210,0]; ENVFROM_VERP(0.00)[]; FORGED_SENDER(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.19)[ip: (-0.45), ipnet: 142.0.176.0/22(-0.23), asn: 7381(-0.18), country: US(-0.09)]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-Rspamd-Server: mx1.freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:15:59 -0000 On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:51:31 -0500 Alejandro Imass wrote: > The other curious thing and somewhat unrelated (or not?) is how close > 386BSD FreeBSD were to Linux (both in '91, FreeBSD actually '92). So if > only for a few months, Linux would probably not exist. There was another factor which gave Linux breathing space to become workable, the ATT/BSD lawsuit that had the legal status of the BSDs in question until it was resolved in 1994. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith