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NetBSD Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

Posted by timothy on from the chooses-energizer-bunny-as-new-logo dept.

jschauma writes "This week marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of development of the NetBSD Operating System. The very first commit to the NetBSD source tree (src/Makefile) was by Chris Demetriou on Friday 21 March, 1993. Parties are being held in various cities around the world, see the press release for more details. Happy 10th Birthday, NetBSD!"

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  1. Parent was moded "Funny"? by /Idiot\ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dying? We are all dying my son :-)

    NetBSD is an excelent OS. Some may prefer Linux, some may perfer NetBSD. Me, I use both!

    NetBSD might not be *your* particular brand of vodka on i386/x86 arch, but compare the progress of NetBSD on non-i386 archs to Linux on the same arch and, well, NetBSD is the ONLY real choice to make my uVAX more than just a space-heater!

    Dying, definately not. NetBSD is not an example of how great an open source OS can become.

    While I am here, a big thanks to all the NetBSD developers, where ever you are!

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    /dev/Idiot/
  2. Best kept secret by felix9x · · Score: 3, Insightful

    NetBSD is realy great many admins just love it. The system is rock solid and its not unusual that it woudl be running for years without a reboot. Many admins use it for things like mail, ftp, web servers internaly in companies and no press no hype is generated but the OS keeps on working doing its job.

  3. Re:Elegy for *BSD by dick+johnson · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Died?

    Think again.

    Try Mac OS X.

    It's the biggest selling Unix operating system on the market today (better than four million copies per year)

    It's also a BSD unix.

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    - dj