From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:30:22 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Happy 25th Birthday NetBSD! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Jeremy C. Reed 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: