* 1992 – 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution.

The 386BSD releases made to the public beginning in 1992 were based on portions of the 4. 3BSD Net / 2 release coupled with additional code ( see Missing Pieces I and II, Dr. Dobb's Journal, May – June 1992 ) written by William and Lynne Jolitz to make a complete operational release.

In late 1994, a finished version 386BSD Release 1. 0 was distributed by Dr. Dobb's Journal on CDROM only due to the immense size ( 600 MB ) of the release ( the " 386BSD Reference CD-ROM ") and was a best-selling CDROM for three years ( 1994 – 1997 ).