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From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 31 Aug 1995 02:54:42 GMT
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In article <422saj$ege@news.belwue.de>,
Markus Nullmeier <mnullmei@aixterm7.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

>in article <41l252$fia@wolfe.wimsey.com>, Curt Sampson (curt@cynic.portal.ca) wrote:
>> (The Net/2
>>portion of that has been available to everyone, academic or not,
>>for free.)
>Has been, yes, since it was withdrawn because of the UCB/USL agreement.

And replaced with the 4.4BSD-Lite source.

>>licence less restrictive than that of Linux, has been available on
>>the Intel 386 platform since Jolitz released his port of the Net/2
>Many potential users were scared off from the USL lawsuit. This maybe
>wasn't heroic, but this way things happend.

This doesn't seem likely to me (or at least it seems unlikely that they
went to Linux, rather than a commercial OS). Could provide some backing
for this statement?

>>the Internet. The code itself eventually appears under Linux (Linux's
>>networking, though not of the same quality as that of any of the
>>BSD systems, was derived from Net2),
>This reads misleading. While most networking user mode programs from
>Net/2 or later BSD code are used, there is no BSD code in the Linux kernel
>networking (the Van Jacobson TCP header compression code from UCB was 
>taken from the defining RFC).

I can't say I'm surprised. It would be hard to make the Net/2 code run
as badly as I saw the Linux networking running late last year. :-)

cjs
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