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> Then Tannenbaum came out with his book and it didn’t really take off. > Then Torvalds open-sourced linux and that is what started to gain popularity. cough
by SixSigma 11y ago
> Then Tannenbaum came out with his book and it didn’t really take off.
> Then Torvalds open-sourced linux and that is what started to gain popularity.
cough BSDi cough
- nickpsecurity 11y agoTo support your point: https://web.archive.org/web/19990224090656/http://www.bsdi.com/company/ https://web.archive.org/web/19990224090656/http://www.bsdi.c... Seeing the list, now I'm sure which BSD that SCC likely used in their Sidewinder firewall. They modified it to have mandatory access controls to contain breaches of subsystems. This was before SELinux, etc. Never used BSDi, though, so can't say much about it except its users were getting pretty of mileage out of it given rep of products based on it. Least in appliances.
- SixSigma 11y agoWe used BSDi to launch an ISP in 1995, with 20 modems and 512kbps of bandwidth. I still have the Cdrom and we do hosting nowadays.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoHow much did it cost out of curiosity?
- SixSigma 11y agoI really can't remember. I didn't order it myself.