Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: life is hard for small Linux distros Date: 20 May 2018 15:15:21 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <4rr5te-6hm.ln1@raspberry.therandymon.com> <20180520000227@news.eternal-september.org> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net ZUgw9imKpfzEC9IORr/jKQvJg5pV3j0wpCker+5Gzp1HVfI5rX Cancel-Lock: sha1:3IXfnuYznvimwcY5/nwy1Ptip+M= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:15944 On 2018-05-20, Bob Eager wrote: > 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. You're all so *old*. :o) I started with SunOS, which was BSD based, I believe, then followed it to Solaris (S5R4). I am completely agnostic as to Unix versions. -- Today is Setting Orange, the 67th day of Discord in the YOLD 3184 Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.