Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:12:38 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: freennix@gmail.com Subject: FreeBSD in the news! (fwd) Message-ID: <201506121312.t5CDCc5U024851@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Hi advocacy@freebsd.org, Forwarded from: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> http://berklix.com/~jhs/ ------- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:49:00 -0400 Subject: FreeBSD in the news! From: freennix@gmail.com To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/>; âFreeBSD Doc. Team, Came across this cool item in Distrowatch's most recent news issue: âhttp://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150608#news From Distrowatch: "Unix has a long and interesting history along with a correspondingly tangled family tree. The original Unix operating system spawned a huge collection of children, cousins and clones which makes navigating the politics of modern Linux/BSD/MINIX/Unix community forums a truly bizarre experience. For those of us interested in operating system history there is help to be found. A document called [1]A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution offers us a written history of Unix complete with diagrams and graphs that outline where modern open source Unix (particularlyâ [2]FreeBSD) came from. 'As can be seen in Figure 1, a modern version of Unix (FreeBSD 9) still contains visible chunks of code from BSD 4.3, BSD 4.3 Net/2, and FreeBSD 2.0. Interestingly, the Figure shows that code developed during the frantic dash to create an open source operating system out of the code released by Berkeley (386BSD and FreeBSD 1.0) does not seem to have survived. The oldest code in FreeBSD 9 appears to be an 18-line sequence in the C library file timezone.c, which can also be found in the 7th Edition Unix file with the same name and a time stamp of January 10th, 1979 - 36 years ago.' The [3]document contains all sorts of interesting bits of trivia and will make it easier to understand where modern FreeBSD comes from." I think visitors to the www.freebsd.org WWW site would be intrigued and impressed to know that today's latest -RELEASE distribution of FreeBSD is the culmination of 36 years of continuous, iterative development, testing, refinement, optimization, and improvement...and now we have a rigorous academic paper to prove it! Thanks, Austin Kim Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network. References 1. http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/Spi15c.html 2. http://distrowatch.com/freebsd 3. http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/Spi15c.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ------- End of Forwarded Message
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