Berkeley Software Distribution

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1981)

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rah

jancona

cherimullins

bitprophet

shywolf9982

Ben

angelausy

dl - 14 years

rah - 3 years

jancona - 7 years

cherimullins - 2 years

bitprophet - 4 years

shywolf9982 - 4 years

Ben - 2 years

angelausy - 1 years

1981–1994

rah

1984–1986

@ UofC on a Pyramid machine called "Sphynx".

jancona

1989–1995

Spent a lot of time dialed in WPI's BSD Unix systems while working part-time on my Master's.

cherimullins

1990–1991

bitprophet

2003–2006

Have played with FreeBSD on and off; used OpenBSD seriously for firewall and server use, but got sick of its Spartan feel and lack of packages/support/etc found in the Linux world. Felt the security/purity wasn't worth the convenience tradeoff. Still have serious respect for the family, however.

shywolf9982

2003–2006

On-and-off usage. Never offered any compelling reason to switch away from Linux.

Ben

2004–2005

Used OpenBSD in college for a capstone shell-scripting project.

2007