alt Hacker NewsWhich ones? BSD was tied in a lawsuit that left doubts on its future.
Minix was a toy OS for university teachings.
Coherent was commercial.
Nothing else was there on the PC market.
Which ones? BSD was tied in a lawsuit that left doubts on its future.
Minix was a toy OS for university teachings.
Coherent was commercial.
Nothing else was there on the PC market.
386BSD and its derivatives (eg FreeBSD) weren’t really attacked by SCO like other UNIXes were. In fact SCO filed more lawsuits against Linux than they did (for example) FreeBSD.
FreeBSD was also used heavily in the late 90s in ISPs and similar domains.