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FreeBSD Goes Home

Posted by timothy on from the by-any-other-name dept.

ChrisKnight writes: "According to this article FreeBSD is returning to Walnut Creek. Cool. They never screwed up my subscription, unlike Wind River." The article briefly traces the complicated ownership history of the FreeBSD name, too.

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  1. My Experience with FreeBSD, WR, and WC by TRoLLaXoR · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They were a very thoughtful company when it regards to providing information on their regular commercial OSes (they've also bought pSOS along the way) but I never saw this attention paid to FreeBSD.

    I think they were being a bit overenthusiastic and optimistic in buying the FreeBSD business when all they knew they wanted was BSD/OS.

    Glad to see at least the FreeBSD foundation is back in familiar, caring hands.

    Gladly this doesn't affect the release of 4.5-- I've been using it since 4.1 and it keeps getting better and better. The fact that 5.0 was delayed, forcing more work on 4.x branches, means that FreeBSD 4.x could be the most refined Free *nix ever.