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"Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?" (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

BSD was released as a standalone kernel over ten years before linux.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I lookes it up, and the quote I was thinking of was this:

    "If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened."

    So yeah, sorry about getting the timing of things wrong, and thank you for correcting me.

    I do still think however, that if not for Linux, it would be BSD running most servers and such.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I was wondering, the timing was a sore point for bsd users back in the day. But linux had the upper hand because it was built on pc, spoke the language, so to speak. The groundswell was immense because all the hobbyists already understood the boot stack and the machine code. I don't disagree but it is "coulda woulda shoulda".

    If they had ported to 386 a few years earlier, linus probably would be a bsd enthusiast. It is also possible the window that drove him there could have persisted well past bsd on 386. Who knows.

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