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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:07

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On 21 Mar 2018 09:00:54 GMT
Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:48:32 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:
> 
> >>Well ... 386BSD (becoming {Free,Net,Open}BSD was stable a little bit
> >>earlier, but didn't get Linus' marketing push.
> > 
> > The big benefit of Linux was that it was truly free.  BSD without AT&T
> > encumbrance wasn't out until about a year after Linux.
> 
> Linux wasn't stable until about 1994, by which time BSD had been 
> unencumbered for some time.

	Hmm FreeBSD 2.0 was the first unencumbered release of FreeBSD in
November 1994 and it was less reliable than the encumbered 1.1.5.1 release,
not bad but the previous release was golden.

	Linux 1.0 was released a few months earlier in March and was
pretty good. The real weakness in the early Linux releases was the rather
iffy TCP/IP stack which had all sorts of corner case routing bugs as I
found out the hard way, other than that I found it an overall improvement
over SCO (FreeBSD was better still but not so many found that out). Linux
grew to usable stability while the BSD legal arguments were raging.

	In those days the hands down winner for hardware support was
NetBSD, but it was clunky.

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