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NetBSD and FreeBSD came out in 1993, the same year as Slackware. The BSDs seem like pretty complete Unix systems and are still in use today, but they are also-r
by musicale 5y ago
NetBSD and FreeBSD came out in 1993, the same year as Slackware. The BSDs seem like pretty complete Unix systems and are still in use today, but they are also-rans compared to GNU/Linux.
- hapless 5y agoFreeBSD had to reboot the project after some lawsuits -- FreeBSD 2.0 is a different codebase from FreeBSD 1.1 It was a huge setback for every kind of adoption
- musicale 5y agoI didn't actually know that the FreeBSD project had to "reboot" - this is very interesting and adds to the "lawsuit" theory.