Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 12:12:13 -0700 From: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com> To: Paul Richards <paul@originat.demon.co.uk> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, 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: <335A6A8D.11FDA5F1@konnections.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970419143222.4592I-100000@thelab.hub.org> <87iv1isxpd.fsf@originat.demon.co.uk>
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Paul Richards wrote: inux had no networking. > > I think the main reason Linux picked up so quickly was it grew up in a > different environment. It developed from the Minix crowd and DOS users > who wanted to try Unix, which was always a much bigger audience, > whereas 386BSD grew up in the BSD community which was a much tighter > nit group of people who weren't to evangelical about this wonderful > new system called unix since it wasn't new to them. Paul: I wrote and remember that NET/2 BSD was attached by USL/NOVELL at this very time when they sued BSDI. I think this REALLY prompted the Linux movement because NET/2 had been released for a short period and there was a taste for free unix. Torvalds fed this market with his idea for a free independent Unix (and some help with his homework, no doubt). But I think BSD COULDN'T take off, not Didn't... -Mike
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