FreeBSD in the news!

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   âFreeBSD Doc. Team,

   Came across this cool item in Distrowatch's most recent news issue:

   âhttp://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150608#news

   From Distrowatch:

   "Unix has a long and interesting history along with a correspondingly
   tangled family tree. The original Unix operating system spawned a huge
   collection of children, cousins and clones which makes navigating the
   politics of modern Linux/BSD/MINIX/Unix community forums a truly
   bizarre experience. For those of us interested in operating system
   history there is help to be found. A document called [1]A Repository
   with 44 Years of Unix Evolution offers us a written history of Unix
   complete with diagrams and graphs that outline where modern open source
   Unix (particularlyâ [2]FreeBSD) came from. 'As can be seen in Figure 1,
   a modern version of Unix (FreeBSD 9) still contains visible chunks of
   code from BSD 4.3, BSD 4.3 Net/2, and FreeBSD 2.0. Interestingly, the
   Figure shows that code developed during the frantic dash to create an
   open source operating system out of the code released by Berkeley
   (386BSD and FreeBSD 1.0) does not seem to have survived. The oldest
   code in FreeBSD 9 appears to be an 18-line sequence in the C library
   file timezone.c, which can also be found in the 7th Edition Unix file
   with the same name and a time stamp of January 10th, 1979 - 36 years
   ago.'  The [3]document contains all sorts of interesting bits of trivia
   and will make it easier to understand where modern FreeBSD comes from."

   I think visitors to the www.freebsd.org WWW site would be intrigued and
   impressed to know that today's latest -RELEASE distribution of FreeBSD
   is the culmination of 36 years of continuous, iterative development,
   testing, refinement, optimization, and improvement...and now we have a
   rigorous academic paper to prove it!

   Thanks,

   Austin Kim

   Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE
   network.

References

   1. http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/Spi15c.html
   2. http://distrowatch.com/freebsd
   3. http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/html/Spi15c.html