[TUHS] BSD/OS

[Larry McVoy]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2024 at 05:52:29PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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....

My personal opinion on these old operating systems is don't set up a store
and try make money from it and you are golden.  Don't set up a website and
say "Get Unix for free here".

It's sort of like dirt where I live.  Technically, you can't move more than
5 yards without a permit.  Yet people do it all the time, they just don't
advertise it.

And no offense to the ancient Unix versions but I'm not sure anyone really
wants them for anything other than history.  Nor should they.  I'm a SunOS
guy, huge fan, it's where I learned how to be a kernel guy.  Would I want 
to run that rather than Linux today?  Oh, hell, no.  Everything works on
Linux, graphics, sound, video, email attachments, so much of that was a
mess on SunOS and a bigger mess on other systems, including peers of 
SunOS.

If there was value in BSD/OS the lawyers would come after you but there is
no value other than history.