From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 19 11:35:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00864 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:35:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (hal-ns1-14.netcom.ca [207.181.94.78]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00859 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thelab.hub.org (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id PAA21539; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:35:11 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:35:11 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Joel Ray Holveck cc: jack@diamond.xtalwind.net, mark@quickweb.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... In-Reply-To: <199704191801.OAA20718@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... > > What about NetBSD? I thought it was around before Linux. I don't know...as I said, its the first one that I knew about, and, to be quite honest...I can't recall *where* I heard about it from... Oh ya, now I remember. I used to run Interactive Unix, SVR3.2 as a dialup, free, public access Unix box...one of my users was into Linux and convinced me to switch up (Linux, even in those days (<1.0) was miles better then SVR3.2 *grin*) Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org