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From: jadestar@netcom.com (JaDe)
Subject: Re: Where do I find UNIX kernel and apps?
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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 01:34:48 GMT
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In days of yore (16 Jun 1995 04:24:28 GMT)
Lord Vader (jryan@eng.umd.edu) bespake:
::I'm interested in installing UNIX on my PC and I'd like to know what FTP
::sites I can get the kernel and apps from; I've been searching all night
::and all I've found is Linux. Any help with installation would be helpful
::too. Thanx.
:: Darth
Linux is the predominate freeware Unix for the PC.
The only other family of *nixes for the PC that you can
find on the net is the 386BSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD clan.
I don't know an ftp site just offhand but I bet a peek at
the FAQ for the comp.os.386bsd.* hierarchy will help.
O.K. -- I just realized that you'd obviously never heard
of the Jolitz PC port of BSD (under any of it's various
names) so you probably would have trouble tracking down
the FAQ. Rather than send you to re-ask the same question
over there (which, by the way has moved from comp.os.* to
comp.unix.* recently) I went to rtfm.mit.edu and grabbed the
FAQ myself.
I'd include a copy but it would be a bit of a shocker --
almost a half meg. in your inbox.
Glancing through it I see that 386BSD is no longer available
but that FreeBSD and NetBSD live on. They can be located at:
[quoting the FAQ:]
According to Lynne Jolitz, there is no such thing as an 'official'
386bsd site. The closest we had was 'agate.berkeley.edu' which is
now closed. Because of the USL/UCB agreement, 386bsd is no
longer freely redistributable, since it was based on Net/2 and
Net/2 was encumbered.
FreeBSD's 'home' is FreeBSD.cdrom.com (the home disk of Walnut
Creek). The portions of FreeBSD (versions less than 2.0) that
were encumbered are distributed with the tolerance of
AT&T/USL/Novell/whoever owns the source for SysV this week. All
FreeBSD versions (with version number >= 2.0) are based solely
on the freely redistributable BSD 4.4 sources.
NetBSD's 'home' is now ftp.NetBSD.Org. All versions of
NetBSD since 0.9 have replaced the kernel code from the 4.3
distribution with the source from the 4.4 distribution. The
only code still in NetBSD from the 4.3 distribution is some user
program code that was uncontested in the USL/UCB agreement.
[End Quote]
So, hopefully that'll take care of you.
One of these days I ought to give Net/FreeBSD a try. Just
to see how it differs from Linux.
Personally I think Linus was right -- he owed an undue amount
of the early success of his OS over the Jolitz' more mature
work to having a "sexier" name. Maybe it's not too late to call
it "Jolix"
--
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