From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 19 13:21:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA07388 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 13:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA07368 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 13:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA29468 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 22:21:46 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA18161; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 22:16:17 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970419221617.NX43957@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 22:16:17 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On Holy Wars, and a Plea for Peace [sorry Danny, wherever you are, but the title fits]... References: <199704191714.NAA20555@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from The Hermit Hacker on Apr 19, 1997 14:34:00 -0300 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As The Hermit Hacker 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. The first, yes, but only by a few months. And it hasn't been known to more than maybe a hundred people by this time. When 386BSD 0.0 appeared, Linux was at 0.17 or 0.23 or such (i don't remember the exact version), and still very incomplete. 386BSD had much more press in advance, Bill Jolitz's series has been printed for about 12 or 15 months already before version 0.0 was finally available. (There was even a German translation here, with an offset of ~ 9 months.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)