[TUHS] BSD/OS

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Sep 7, 2024, 4:53 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday,  4 September 2024 at  4:49:47 -0400, Jim Carpenter wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 3:33 AM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling at kev009.com>
> wrote:
> >> Many of the BSD/OS versions have disc images on archive.org or
> >> osarchive.org where the 7.4GB rar file was helpful for getting a 5.1
> >> contrib disc since the archive.org one is corrupt.  So the binaries
> >> and source seem fairly well preserved for future explorers.
> >
> > Check again. The contrib image in the 7.4GB rar has the same hash as
> > the one on archive.org and elsewhere. I have no idea if the install
> > image is 100% correct. Hell, it's possible every image in that archive
> > and on archive.org is bad. I just don't know.
> >
> > So if anybody has any BSD/OS CDs please speak up.
>
> I have CDs of 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0.  I had 1.x, but I can't put my hands
> on them right now.  Maybe they were on QIC tape, in which case they're
> probably unrecoverable.  I also have source trees for 4.0, 4.1 and the
> development version of 5.0 which I used to write the code for FreeBSD.
>
> What's the legal situation about distributing them?
>

No one is left to go after you for diing so. Wind river left bsdi support
behind years ago....

But that's a slippery slope that depends on how you feel about ancient
abandonware...

Warner



Greg
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