I was fortunate to have a 386 (bought by my parents for college) with me in the early 90's (there was one other floor mate in college I remember who had a 386 a

I was fortunate to have a 386 (bought by my parents for college) with me in the early 90's (there was one other floor mate in college I remember who had a 386 at the time). I came from BBS's (c128 with modem) and had no notion of BSD vs linux or any of the legal battles of the time. I can only put it down to "marketing" or some type of "fate" that one day on usenet I learned that I could install "linux" a type of "Unix" (the "same" thing I was using on the workstations in college) on my 386. It was Slackware that I had installed at the time and that's my story. I eventually did learn about BSD later but it didn't really "click" with me when I tried it. I think maybe Linux was the "zeitgeist" of the time and information on it was just readily more available (at least for me).