[TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question")

[Bakul Shah]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:19:25 -0500 Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
>
> I bring this all up in hopes to try to close this rat hole of Linux, *vs*.

Ha!

> *BSD.   Like editors, we all have our own favorites.  That's cool, we don't
> want one thing to be forced down our throat.  Having a choice is what is
> good.   And what I value, Larry or Jon may not necessarily like.   Most of
> us if not all on this list probably want something that approximates Ken
> and Dennis's original ideas not what IBM, DEC, CDC were trying to make us
> use in the old days or what Microsoft calls a system today.

I want an *evolution* of their original ideas. Instead we have
significantly more complicated systems which may be more
efficient but certainly a lot more bloaty and less flexible
(with a few exceptions). [Ties in with the single system idea]

> The discussion of how we got there and what people valued at the time is
> useful so we can try to remember the history and learn from it; but getting
> into right/wrong, good/bad, or you could have had this is a tad tiresome;
> IMO.

+1