[TUHS] Happy 25th Birthday NetBSD!

[Erik Berls]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 17:30 Andy Kosela <akosela at andykosela.com> wrote:

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> On Wednesday, March 21, 2018, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
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>> Revision 1.1, Sun Mar 21 09:45:37 1993 UTC (25 years ago) by cgd
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>> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sbin/init/init.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=MAIN
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>> Today is commonly considered the birthday of NetBSD.
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>> 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.)
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>> 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.)
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> 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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