386bsd Alternatives

386bsd reviews and mentions

• RIP Bill Jolitz (1957 – 2022), co-author of 386BSD
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2022

  I'm 99% certain you could boot BSD from DOS back then too. 386BSD 1.0 contains a "boot.exe" which works with FreeDOS -as long as you don't load anything else!

  https://github.com/386bsd/386bsd/tree/1.0

  I think that FreeBSD 2.0 may have used the boot utility as well -but I'm not sure.

  I remember when I encountered Linux in the late 90's there was a distro that sat on MS-DOS; I think it may have been "Monkey Linux" ( https://projectdevolve.tripod.com/table/descript.htm )? It wasn't Slackware -but I pretty quickly found slackware and began using "zipslack" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZipSlack) before diving in and doing a real Linux install.

  So by 97 or so Linux was figuring out more sophisticated ways to co-exist with DOS if not Windows95.

  And yes, by the time XP was released Linux was popular enough that people didn't bother making kludges like that any more. It probably didn't help that vfat and fat32 were different than the old umsdos file system so that the drawbacks out-weighed the benefits.

• Pale Moon developers (ab)use Mozilla Public License to shut down a fork supporting older Windows
  4 projects | /r/opensource | 31 Aug 2021

  Source: Porting Unix to 386 series at https://386bsd.org originally published in Dr. Dobbs Journal.

• Berkeley DB v1.6 (1993)
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2021
• SQLRite – SQLite clone from scratch in Rust
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2021

  This is interesting. I think you'll soon find that the in-memory data structures provided by Rust's std::collections aren't going to work for you when you start thinking about on-disk storage of data.

  One resource that is invaluable for learning about databases is the code to the original Berkeley DB

  https://github.com/386bsd/386bsd/tree/9eaf3b3359255f461055b8...

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