Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 15:35:11 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> 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]... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970419153308.4592O-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199704191801.OAA20718@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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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
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