From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy 25th Birthday NetBSD!
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:30:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALMnNGgCSUpakX0MVQ5nMmZY2doje-zKhWisiLCxbXEO3Swq2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1803211456560.25928@t1.m.reedmedia.net>
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...
--Andy
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2018-03-21 22:35 Jeremy C. Reed
2018-03-22 0:30 ` Andy Kosela [this message]
2018-03-22 1:21 ` Erik Berls
2018-03-22 1:41 ` Jon Forrest
2018-03-22 1:09 ` Dave Horsfall
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