After spending the last few days playing around with Linux distros from 1997-98 and comparing them to #FreeBSD 2.2.8, I'm left wondering why exactly it was Linux that ended up winning that round of the OS wars when it seems like FreeBSD was so much better? Nearly all the Linux distros I tried were at least partially broken out-of-the-box.
Best guess: lingering legal concerns vis-a-vis AT&T? 馃
@PurpleJillybeans
Momentum.
In the #dos days (before windows95),, #linux partitioning was easier for #dos people to use. Plus you could easily mount #dos disks under Linux if you dual booted. Along with that, dos utilities were created to read/write ext2. Those did not exist to write data to ufs from dos.
By 1997/8, people mainly stuck with #linux. In that period, v3&4 of #FreeBSD was awesome, but then v5 came out and that version got nothing but bad press 馃槥 So here we are.
