386BSD vs Linux came down to a single thing for me: Support for MBR partitions. I was aware of both systems from the beginning and started to prepare trying bot

386BSD vs Linux came down to a single thing for me: Support for MBR partitions. I was aware of both systems from the beginning and started to prepare trying both of them from around January 1992. What I had available was a 486 PC with OS/2. So in the end it was quite simple: With Linux and its support for partitions I could use that 486 without losing OS/2 (this was at work, after all, I couldn't ditch that system - I used it for production). I first booted and executed Linux from a floppy, and soon I could install Linux on a separate HD partition (and still boot from a floppy, for a while). But 386BSD needed to take over the disk, and that was out of the question. That was the showstopper for me. And shortly after that, my x-terminal broke and I switched to use that particular 486 PC as a replacement, a hack version of X11 came around early so that was actually possible. I was a little involved in testing new drivers and filesystems and so on, and by that time I was firmly into the Linux camp and have stayed there since. My original Unix experience was mainly from SunOS.