From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 11 22:48:53 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E02D497E for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 22:48:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freennix@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vn0-x242.google.com (mail-vn0-x242.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c0f::242]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99CF011C1 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 22:48:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freennix@gmail.com) Received: by vnbf190 with SMTP id f190so4155345vnb.3 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:48:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:date :subject:from:to; bh=swdbLMRRowJjQlcagSeEHxnCJBi5s1mIH5UCFRroGw8=; b=H0Da1LbwcvR1kHWXKDeMBE2EJvzxIkoioWXd1tbMMa/mGMQZ94h6esYa2ljTPhSsaM BTmOGf97avbqPy3UeGRblFT4wXc7/I5rRO22Hf6VdUhtP6uW5pWGDEbOw1l+ihd+2636 +TfPV1eUi/ODgSyzsJeK2WA72S7pz5tMM8IeLQ533j3G3QG2yv8n154DLd98mSQ+yFig atqow4g379OSOHVLg4SUyqMSjwaaGlfIt6q2Q6v/EYHOYpMosa5JivXyM9FnAh4a+y14 TbPYoTOse/lorszUtbmHrwtRh0DF6la4XkG4pN/DKxakYmsclpAdGGdLVpbD/gPzndJz lytQ== X-Received: by 10.52.32.34 with SMTP id f2mr20472075vdi.11.1434062932432; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:48:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (c-73-147-198-5.hsd1.va.comcast.net. [73.147.198.5]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id c7sm2433291vdw.16.2015.06.11.15.48.51 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:48:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: BlackBerry Email (10.2.1.3253) Message-ID: <20150611224900.5935254.17660.1241@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:49:00 -0400 Subject: FreeBSD in the news! From: freennix@gmail.com To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 22:48:54 -0000 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