Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: life is hard for small Linux distros Date: 20 May 2018 09:29:48 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <4rr5te-6hm.ln1@raspberry.therandymon.com> <20180520000227@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net pqw5RVWlee4ATmUglBtlxQdivtRCirWmwX8ghShXX0i2pFdeSt Cancel-Lock: sha1:aJ1TBMrInZXuMQt/txY6i9gcGsE= User-Agent: Pan/0.141 (Tarzan's Death; 168b179 git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:15943 On Sun, 20 May 2018 04:10:24 +0000, Roger Blake wrote: > On 2018-05-20, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> I've never really made an effort with BSD beyond "ohh look that's >> different, and that's different...". > > I actually started with ancient BSD way before linux - 4.1 BSD running > on a Vax 780 to be specific. Interestingly its programmer's manual, > which I still have, describes experimental yet-to-be-named network > protocols that are clearly TCP/IP and UDP. Similar story here. I started earlier - Sixth Edition on the PDP-11, then Seventh Edition and 2.xBSD. Then UNIX-32V on the VAX (briefly) followed by 4.{0,1,2,3}BSD. I now use FreeBSD, unsurprisingly. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org