20 years back from today, NetBSD was initially checked into CVS. Revision 1.1 of src/Makefile was committed on March 21st 1993 on 09:45:37 by Chris Demetriou (cgd@):

% cvs log -Nr1.1 Makefile
...
revision 1.1
date: 1993/03/21 09:45:37;  author: cgd;  state: Exp;
branches:  1.1.1;
Initial revision 

Personally, I've followed NetBSD since the day in 1993 when the Amiga port popped up, which was the first platform that the newly forked operating system was ported to after its separation from BSD.

Many things have happened in the past 20 years, and a lot could be shown and told for the history books at this point. But I guess that can be done later - I'd be happy to help out with such a project if someone wants to start it, though :)

For today I'm very happy that NetBSD is available on a wide range on platforms, runs the software that I want and gives me the assurrance it will be around tomorrow and hopefully for the next 20 years, too.

Cheers, NetBSD!

Update: Jeremy Reed pointed me at his BSDnewletter posting, which gives a number of details of NetBSD's history. Recommended reading!

[Tags: history, netbsd]

Funny enough, I found a printout of slides from the conference where Chris Demetriou presented NetBSD, with his and Theo's name on them the other day.

[Tags: Articles, history, openbsd]

Blosxom was appealing to me as software as it doesn't need a database and all the related install and maintenance overhead (esp. I don't have root on my webserver, for starters!), and editing single ASCII files seems the most forward for me, instead of having data stuffed away in some binary blog database.

For the contents, I have basically split up the old monolithic file into single bits, and added lots of keywords (see the end of the blog page!). In the future, this can be used e.g. to easily sort articles into categories like Articles, Docs, Advocacy, Hardware and whatnot. For toying, I've started a page with tags used in my blog, please have a look.

So for the changes:

• The bad news first: Links to seperate articles will be busted. Deal.
• The old blog URL should still be ok (http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html)
• The old RSS-feed URL should still be ok (http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog-rss.xml)
• Tags, as told above. A lot more work can be put into this, but tools are needed. Editing like 670 files in vi is not fun.
• No need to reload the whole page for a single article, permalinks can be set to single articles (be sure to use the permalinks provided behind the green dates, not the ones shown in the URL bar of your webbrowser.

  Yes I know that's a bit confusing, but I have no real idea how to fix that.

• The default view shows like 20 entries and you can move to the next page and back.
• Everything is stuffed away in one directory, and things are a bit easier for me that way. I hope I didn't goof up with the redirects.
• I'm notifying a number of webpages about updates of the blog, so it should be found a bit better in the future.

Enjoy!

[Tags: blosxom, hfblog, history]

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