Re: Bill Joy's contribution (was: BSD)

2009-04-23 Thread Kirk McKusick
Your summary and timeline are accurate. Bill singlehanded started the BSD distributions in 1977. 1BSD had Pascal, csh, and ex. Bill wrote the first two and vastly improved an editor that he got from someone else. By 2BSD he had contributions from other graduate students at Berkeley including

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Gary Gatten wrote: I'm a function before form person, so pretty GUI's don't really impress me much. Make it detect my hardware CORRECTLY and install the right stuff fairly quickly and I'm happy! snip font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in

Re: Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes: Jayton Garnett jayton.garn...@gmail.com writes: I just can not help but feel that buying Sun had something to do with MySQL's demise and possibly ceasing funding

Re: Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-23 Thread ovi freebsd
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: Greg 'groggy' Lehey g...@freebsd.org writes: Jayton Garnett jayton.garn...@gmail.com writes: I just can not help but feel that buying Sun had something to