From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 23 7:26:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B801568E for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:26:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA22103; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:24:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907231424.HAA22103@implode.root.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: unknown@riverstyx.net (Tani Hosokawa), brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:19:19 -0000." <199907221719.KAA07206@usr05.primenet.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:24:20 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> > In fact, BSD UNIX in general would be far ahead, because it has been around >> > longer. >> >> I'm curious -- How long has FreeBSD existed? > >FreeBSD is a direct descendent of a planned 0.5 interim release of >386BSD. It was released as FreeBSD when Bill Jolitz denied the >use of the 386BSD trademark in order to prevent the release, and >backed out of the agreement whereby the 0.5 interim release was >being prepared. The denial came about as a result of a firestorm >on Usenet, touched off by Lynne Jolitz. > >As a derivative work of 386BSD 0.1, FreeBSD can properly be said >to have existed as long as 386BSD existed, even though the 2.x >code branch is 4.4BSD-Lite derived and contains no 386BSD code. > >In other words, FreeBSD dates to 1991. 386BSD 0.0 was released in March 1992. 0.1 didn't come out until mid-92. FreeBSD 1.0 was released in Q4 1993. The first release of Linux was two years earlier. We also had the USL lawsuit set us back a fair bit. The point is that although the codebase is much older than Linux, BSD was released to the public well after Linux was. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message