On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 9:12 PM Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com> wrote:
Those are based on Mach and BSD (I think, don't quote me though). I was thinking PC BSD (?), NetBSD and another that I think became FreeBSD.
I get it, I'm just saying a lot of devices were based on BSD. Heck Juniper's JUNOs and Citrix's netscaler are BSD based. As for Mach, I know that linux is just considered the kernel. BSD is the kernel and the OS and so you can have BSD running with a Mach kernel. I have seen NeXT and Darwin defended as BSD based.
There was a hot law suite about BSD at the time that allowed Linux to get all the attention because it wasn't tied up in court.
I think the lawsuit you are talking about is this one. UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc._v._Berkeley_Sof....
It is my opinion that if these free BSDs had not been tied up that they might have eclipsed Linux.
I can see that. I have a completely right field opinion as to why I saw adoption. This is my own opinion and I cannot state it is true. I saw a lot of companies who ran Sun move to Linux because of companies like Red Hat. Many businesses wanted a company that they could get support from and I don't remember a company that supported BSD like Red Hat supported Linux. I know there were other Linux companies but I would say Red Hat because thats the one I remember the most. I remember my company adopted Linux because it was certified for the applications we used and thus we moved off SunOS and then moved everything else to linux.
It was an interesting time.
I agree. I remember working on Sun boxes running Solaris, SGIs running IRIX. My old company had an Apple server running AIX. And I had learned unix Amiga running System Vr4 when I worked in Amagination. Good times.