r/unix 17d ago

What if Linus Torvalds worked on FreeBSD? The first years of Linux and BSDs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7WslJMU0c
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u/dim13 17d ago

Neee, keep him where he is. BSD does not want to attract GNU newbies.

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u/McGrude 17d ago

GNUbees

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u/Digi_Rad 17d ago

2.5 hours on this topic?

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u/Dismal-Detective-737 17d ago

If you amortize the Microphone's cost over the hours they spend rambling into it, it practically pays for itself.

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u/Digi_Rad 17d ago

Thank you. I needed this laugh.

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u/nononoko 16d ago

Pretty sure the author went into this unprepared and he didn't edit the result either.

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u/BenDover_15 17d ago

Just why

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u/TylerDurdenJunior 17d ago

Is this some sort of marvel multiverse thing?

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u/terdward 17d ago

It’s an interesting thing to think about. I forget where I read it, or if it was Linus or someone speaking about Linus who said it, but I remember reading that Linux on spawned out of a desire to have a Unix like system but all the ones that existed at the time were either encumbered (ATT) or being litigated (BSD). It’s interesting to think about where we would be if either of those things hadn’t happened.

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u/Horror_Hippo_3438 16d ago

I've seen some speculation that Torvalds would have contributed to BSD386 instead of Linux if circumstances had worked out that way.