[TUHS] BSD/OS

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Aug 31 09:44:20 AEST 2024


On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 5:40 PM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling at kev009.com>
wrote:

> I have been playing around a bit with this in VirtualBox.
>
> Maybe due to the backing company, I had assumed it was a commercial
> FreeBSD variant.  But looking a bit harder, it seems like it was a distinct
> strain of 386bsd like NetBSD and FreeBSD.  There seems to be scant
> information about it online.  Does anyone know if its story is told
> somewhere?
>

Wasn't this from BSDi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD/OS It wasn't a
commercial version of 386bsd, per se, but based on a porting to the PC work
Jolitz had done prior to 386BSD.  They shared a common (very recent)
ancestor. And there was much drama around it all.

Or is this something else?

Warner
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