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posted by takyon on Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the still-free dept.

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that the name FreeBSD turns 25 years old on 2018-06-19. The mailing list archives contain a thread about name selection with with a message containing the following suggestion

How about just simply "FreeBSD"? No confusion, no fuss, seems like a good compromise to me. :-)


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:58PM (#695344)

    I use OpenBSD exclusively, except for a few ARM boards that aren't well supported, and I've always found ports to be pretty up-to-date. The only ports I've modified from the original is urxvt to add the scrolling support patch, and a git flavor of luakit because they changed a bunch of configuration stuff and I didn't want to rewrite all of my configs to be compatible with the last stable release, and both were painless and easy. I am running -current though. Are there any particular packages you're referring too? I've found OpenBSD requires much less fiddling on my part than linux and I love how it all just works instead of requiring hacking around idiotic distro-maintainer choices and shit breaking with every update.