Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:27:59 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 261058] Mid-way into a four-year-long twenty-fifth anniversary. Cheers! Message-ID: <bug-261058-9-MHPQMD4pmK@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-261058-9@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-261058-9@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D261058 --- Comment #4 from Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #2) Top left of the page:=20 > FreeBSD =E2=80=A6 A large community has continually developed it=20 > for more than thirty years. =E2=80=A6 As far as I can tell, the word "it":=20 * refers to BSD * does not refer to FreeBSD.=20 Three points in time:=20 1978-03-09 1BSD RELEASE Berkeley Software Distribution based off of UNIX <https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/timeline/>; 2008-12-28 "=E2=80=A6 derived from BSD, =E2=80=A6" <https://web.archive.org/web/20081228134201/http://www.freebsd.org:80/>; 2009-01-01 "=E2=80=A6 FreeBSD's code base has undergone over thirty years of =E2= =80=A6" <https://web.archive.org/web/20090101062411/http://www.freebsd.org:80/>; =E2=80=A6 then (I'll not guess when) ambiguity increased,=20 eventually the first paragraph at the home page became wrong.=20 ---- Thoughts:=20 * shorten or remove the paragraph * make better use of the About page * do not attempt to cram the historic relationship between BSD and FreeBSD into the home page * link from somewhere (maybe the About page) to the=20 Foundation-provided timeline * beware of ambiguous words such as "it". --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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