didn't realize the linage of the BSD of the time... (well that and I was a BBS user

and they had SLS Linux to download, no BSD for some reason.... And all the

unix people on campus did their best to discourage people from getting BSD..)

Anyways I have bought the 'basic kernel source secrets' book but it didn't come

with a CD... I kind of recall it being expensive...?

IMHO the linux thing just released so often, it was a lot of work to keep up with

(which really hasn't changed) and the BSD stuff was so ivory tower, of we'll release

when it's ready but the world just wouldn't wait. Which is a shame, as seeing

how even 386BSD 0.1 had full TCP/IP while us linux people were trying to get

something like 32v running... Linux was so far behind back then but the constant

releases made it feel far more alive....

Ok, that's enough of a rant.. ;)

After looking around at the various sites operated by the Jolitz's I found this one:

This is the best one I could find, and they don't have any CD's for sale....

I've been building some stuff for 386BSD but the one thing that seems to

be lost to time is the old xfree86 1.X releases...

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Jacob Goense <dugo@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> I don't know if this is interesting to anyone, but I thought I'd share that
> 386BSD will install on Bochs (although slowly, and it's prone to crashing),
> however once the first patchkit is installed, it'll then run on Qemu!
> (0.11.0, it seems the new bios layout of 0.12 is incompatible)

Yes, I think it is very interesting to see what BSD was like on an x86
around the time of the forks into Net- and FreeBSD. You can feel the
itch to roll your own xBSD when messing around with it.

It got me curious about where 386BSD ended though. Did anyone save the
386BSD Reference CD-ROM Release 1.0 from /dev/null?

/Jacob

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