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Curious - what about Linux in particular made people interested in it so much as opposed to contributing to some *BSD, or Hurd? Strictly the license?
by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Curious - what about Linux in particular made people interested in it so much as opposed to contributing to some *BSD, or Hurd? Strictly the license?
- nineteen999 8y agoIn 1991, the BSD's as we know them today didn't exist. 386BSD - 1992 FreeBSD - 1993 NetBSD - 1993 OpenBSD - 1996 There were also ongoing lawsuits concerning AT&T code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/386BSD#History I'm not 100% sure but from memory I don't believe the HURD (Mach-based) kernel was even bootable in 1991. I didn't see bootable HURD releases till much later in the 1990's and they were notoriously unstable.