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Title    FreeBSD Celebrates 25th Anniversary, Tuesday, June 19th
Date    Tuesday June 19 2018, @08:00PM
Author    takyon
Topic   
from the still-free dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/06/19/1237234

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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Links
  1. "canopic jug" - https://soylentnews.org/~canopic+jug/
  2. "FreeBSD" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD
  3. "the name FreeBSD turns 25 years old" - https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/national-freebsd-day/
  4. "with a message containing the following suggestion" - https://www.freebsd.org/news/1993/freebsd-coined.html
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=27402
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