From: erik@ono-sendai.com (Erik Berls)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy 25th Birthday NetBSD!
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:21:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEFkZw9xLdCkSCJU87DJajybbWj4XoXPh8-6hKsqzVJuVwixUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALMnNGgCSUpakX0MVQ5nMmZY2doje-zKhWisiLCxbXEO3Swq2A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 17:30 Andy Kosela <akosela at andykosela.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
>
>> Revision 1.1, Sun Mar 21 09:45:37 1993 UTC (25 years ago) by cgd
>>
>>
>> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sbin/init/init.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=MAIN
>>
>> Today is commonly considered the birthday of NetBSD.
>>
>> Theo told me (seven years ago) that he, cgd, and glass (and one other
>> person) planned it within 30 minutes after discussing with the CSRG and
>> BSDI guys in the hot tub at the Town & Country Resort in San Diego at
>> the January 25-29 1993 USENIX conference. (Does anyone have more to
>> share about this discussion?) Soon, cgd had setup a CVS repository
>> (forked 386BSD with many patchkits) which was re-rolled a few times (due
>> to corrupted CVS). (So maybe March 21 is later than the real birthday.)
>>
>> As far as I know, it is the oldest continuously-maintained complete
>> open source operating system. (It predates Slackware Linux, FreeBSD,
>> and Debian Linux by some months.)
>>
>>
> Speaking about NetBSD anyone know what Chris Demetriou is doing these
> days? He has not been very active in the community for the last 20 years
> or so. Last I heard he was working for Broadcom, but that was 18 years
> ago...
>
Last I talked to him a few years back he was a Eng Director at Google.
LinkedIn still shows him there.
> --Andy
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-21 22:35 Jeremy C. Reed
2018-03-22 0:30 ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-22 1:21 ` Erik Berls [this message]
2018-03-22 1:41 ` Jon Forrest
2018-03-22 1:09 ` Dave Horsfall
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