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I was there for Minix and Linux, I didn't get my hands onto 386BSD at the time (nor knew it existed), only a bit later FreeBSD/NetBSD and eventually OpenBSD. He
by anyfoo 5y ago
I was there for Minix and Linux, I didn't get my hands onto 386BSD at the time (nor knew it existed), only a bit later FreeBSD/NetBSD and eventually OpenBSD. Hence my question: Was 386BSD somehow harder to obtain than Linux?
I guess it was just because at the time, where large transfers over modem were entirely impractical, Linux distributions tended to pop up "everywhere", in book stores as part of books or by themselves, in computer magazines, in rather "micro" distributions on floppy disks etc.? While I guess 386BSD's distribution channels were less fanned out?
- nineteen999 5y agoI sourced my original Slackware/Redhat/Debian CD image from Infomagic back in the 1990's. This was a common way to get the install media before dialup speeds hit 38400 and beyond since downloading a whole distro was so slow and would require so much disk space. It looks like they had a seperate BSD image at the time which had the BSD's on it. So probably not much more difficult to obtain than Linux by 1995. https://archive.org/details/infomagic-BSDisc-1-1-93 https://archive.org/details/infomagic-BSDisc-1-1-93
- segmondy 5y agoI could access it through network via michnet back then. I had no idea where to obtain one, and I think when I did finally find one for sale through some computer magazine, it was in hundreds of dollars (easily $500+) when I barely had pennies to rub together as a high schooler. When I got Linux, I put money together with friends to get a CD. Our major expense was really buying pack of floppies to transfer and install it since we didn't have a CD drive then.