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Happy 20th Birthday, FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the long-may-it-wave dept.

mbadolato writes "FreeBSD celebrates its 20th birthday this week. On 19 June 1993, David Greenman, Jordan Hubbard and Rod Grimes announced the creation of their new fork of the BSD 4.3 operating system, and its new name: FreeBSD." And in the time since then, FreeBSD hasn't exactly stood still; it's spawned numerous other projects (like DragonFly BSD and PC-BSD), as well as served as the basis for much of Mac OS X; there's even a Raspberry Pi build.

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  1. Well... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Given enough time, Netcraft will confirm...

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  2. HAS THIS BEEN CONFIRMED BY NETCRAFT ?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well has it !!

  3. Re:FreeBSD's developers CHOSE to not be popular by camperdave · · Score: 5, Funny

    They openly mocked on their mailing lists the feature of being able to boot into the OS from a floppy drive... The FreeBSD developers CHOSE to not be popular.

    ... and here it is umpteen years later and NOBODY boots from a floppy. Sounds to me like they were just ahead of their time.

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  4. Re:Congrats FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Typical Linux user behavior.