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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. Birthday sale at linuxjewellery.com by HeroicAutobot · · Score: 5, Informative
    I'm not affiliated with them in any way (I swear!), but I noticed that the Linux Jewellery Store is having a BSD Birthday Sale.

    If you're looking for Beastie to add to you (non-virtual) desktop, this is probably the time to get one.

    --
    I'm looking for a HEPA media filter for my TV. I'm alergic to reality shows.
  2. Hrm by B3ryllium · · Score: 5, Funny

    My toaster STILL can't run NetBSD. They need to hurry up the development of it.

    Also, my coffee machine, microwave, and toaster oven all could use a little NetBSD loving.

  3. Re:I have a question by Jungle+guy · · Score: 5, Informative
    When NetBSD started, back in 1992/1993, there was a huge lawsuit against a company called BSDI (that used the BSD code to develop a proprietary operating system and called it Unix). They were sued by USL, a spun-off company formed by AT&T that had rights over Unix. To make a setlement, professors from University of California developed what they called 4BSD - an operating system without the files that were proprerty of USL. FreeBSD an NetBSD had to resynchronize their trees with 4BSD to avoid lawsuits.

    The project lost precious time in its early infancy, while Linux progressed at warp speed (people say that Linus was REALY active those days). Linux was also seen as a haven for possible lawsuits as it was writen from scratch, even tough it was technically inferior in the early days. But, as the community around it grew faster, soon it gained momentum and critical mass. Its use of GNU software was also important. The whole story is in the book Open Sources.