From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: 386 BSD Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:05:20 GMT
In article <1993Jan7.205455.974@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.191406.25765@klaava.Helsinki.FI> lukka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tuomas J Lukka) writes:
>
>One of the reasons that originally steered me toward Linux instead of
>386BSD was the latter's low version number (0.1) compared to Linux (0.97
>at the time). From what I hear from you guys, that big difference may not be
>justified by the features offered by both. What may be behind Jolitz's
>thinking by assigning such an early version number to it? What does he
>think he should have in addition to existing features to qualify for
>version 1.0?
You should ask Bill this question if you want a real answer. I know
that 1 year ago, linux was at version 0.12 or so, and that the next release
after 0.12 was 0.95 because Linus felt that we were getting closer to a stable
system. Still, this does not prove anything when comparing linux to 386bsd.
-Eric
-- Eric Youngdale