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FreeBSD Celebrates 25th Anniversary, Tuesday, June 19th

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

canopic jug writes:

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: 2) by corey on Thursday June 21 2018, @12:24AM (1 child)

    by corey (2202) on Thursday June 21 2018, @12:24AM (#695892)

    Freebsd vitriol here. I say congrats to them. Survived so long without needing to reinvent itself all the time and deviate from the Unix philosophy with shit like systemd.

    I've been using fbsd on my server at home for years and now as a desktop. Server hasn't had a reboot in a year and I log on every few months to execute "freebsd-update fetch ; freebsd-update install ; pkg update". Done.

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  • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Friday June 22 2018, @07:27AM

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 22 2018, @07:27AM (#696620) Journal

    Yes, they've done a great technical job over the years and hopefully will continue to do so for years to come. On the administrative side, one point that is usually neglected and often underrated whenever it actually is noticed is that the project is self-sustaining enough to have survived multiple rotations of the leadership without losing direction or quality. That is truly a sign of a mature, stable, and reliable project.

    However, don't count threats like systemd out yet. Some key people, including ones that inflicted the code of conduct on the project, keep sounding out the possibility of bringing systemd over to FreeBSD in all but name. They haven't stopped trying yet nor have they been driven away.

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