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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!news.mindlink.net!van-bc!vanbc.wimsey.com!cynic.portal.ca!curt From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Date: 31 Aug 1995 02:54:42 GMT Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <42389i$dn7@wolfe.wimsey.com> References: <41j8ek$gq2@wolfe.wimsey.com> <41ki0u$7lr@news.belwue.de> <41l252$fia@wolfe.wimsey.com> <422saj$ege@news.belwue.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:855 comp.unix.bsd.misc:187 comp.os.linux.advocacy:18245 In article <422saj$ege@news.belwue.de>, Markus Nullmeier <mnullmei@aixterm7.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: >in article <41l252$fia@wolfe.wimsey.com>, Curt Sampson (curt@cynic.portal.ca) wrote: >> (The Net/2 >>portion of that has been available to everyone, academic or not, >>for free.) >Has been, yes, since it was withdrawn because of the UCB/USL agreement. And replaced with the 4.4BSD-Lite source. >>licence less restrictive than that of Linux, has been available on >>the Intel 386 platform since Jolitz released his port of the Net/2 >Many potential users were scared off from the USL lawsuit. This maybe >wasn't heroic, but this way things happend. This doesn't seem likely to me (or at least it seems unlikely that they went to Linux, rather than a commercial OS). Could provide some backing for this statement? >>the Internet. The code itself eventually appears under Linux (Linux's >>networking, though not of the same quality as that of any of the >>BSD systems, was derived from Net2), >This reads misleading. While most networking user mode programs from >Net/2 or later BSD code are used, there is no BSD code in the Linux kernel >networking (the Van Jacobson TCP header compression code from UCB was >taken from the defining RFC). I can't say I'm surprised. It would be hard to make the Net/2 code run as badly as I saw the Linux networking running late last year. :-) cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.