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BSD Lawsuits Recalled, FreeBSD, and More
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XDA ☛ AT&T sued Berkeley over 186 lines of Unix code, and the delay handed the market to Linux
Back in 1992, AT&T paid an expert witness to spend over 400 hours assessing Berkeley's version of Unix line by line, and what he returned with amounted to 186 lines of code, when Berkeley's own release amounted to roughly 1.5 million lines. That was what was considered to be the meaningful code overlap at the center of a lawsuit that dragged on for 22 months and, arguably, decided which free Unix we all ended up running.
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DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Lazy Reading for 2026/09/13
A specific request, passed from a reader: Do you have HP equipment, specifically HPE, and are running FreeBSD on it? Dean Hamstead created kernel modules for the HP iLO management processor, without requiring GNU/Linux compatibility or non-MIT licensing, and he needs testers.