[TUHS] 386BSD released
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Jul 16 11:35:57 AEST 2021
On Wed, 14 Jul 2021, Michael Kjörling wrote:
>> In 1992, 386BSD is released by Lynne and William Jolitz, starting the
>> open source operating system movement (Linux didn't come along under
>> later).
>
> Are you sure? Wikipedia claims that it happened the other way around;
> that the Linux kernel initial release was 0.02 on 5 Oct 1991, while the
> 386BSD initial release was 0.0 on 12 March 1992.
Could be; I got that news from one of those daily history sites (I don't
always trust Wikipedia).
> It seems that work on 386BSD began earlier than work on Linux, but that
> the initial release of Linux was earlier than the initial release of
> 386BSD.
That could be the source of the confusion.
-- Dave
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