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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4378 comp.os.linux.misc:31454 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!slate!mbarkah From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah) Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX Message-ID: <1994Dec12.013008.107511@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 01:30:08 GMT References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <maericksD0Mu2u.Dpy@netcom.com> <3cfsi7$eab@nkosi.well.com> Organization: Colorado School of Mines X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Lines: 28 Henry Hwong (henryh@well.sf.ca.us) wrote: : Mark Erickson (maericks@netcom.com) wrote: : : In article <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>, : : Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote: : : >What has LINUX done for UN*X? : : First operating system assembled by volunteers worldwide in an open, : : inclusive fashion? : I think BSD qualifies for that honor. Although the code itself : was restricted by the AT&T copyright, many people on the net : contributed to the earlier releases of BSD -- many universities : had a 32V(?) license, which gave a lot of students access to it. 32/V code was not `assembled by volunteers worldwide in an open ... fashion.' 32/V was the 32-bit port of the Bell Lab's Seventh Edition Unix. Berkeley then took the 32/V, added enhancements, and offered it as 3BSD. If we go back to BSD 1.0, it is interesting to note that it may have been derived from the University of New South Wales' port of Version 6 Unix. But then obviously USNW got their code from Bell Labs. 2BSD was the attempt to rewrite the kernel, but I'm not sure how `worldwide' the development of 2BSD was. -Ade Barkah