It has been 40 years since Robert Scheffler announced the creation of the X Window System protocol. The journey from the release of X1 to X11 took just three years, after which the state of X11 stabilized and has since only accumulated extensions without changing its essence. For instance, extensions such as XVideo, X Font Server, XKB, Xinerama, XCB, Multi-Pointer X, Present, DRI2, DRI3, RandR, X Input, and others were introduced. In 2011, an initiative was launched to create the X12 protocol, but it did not go beyond discussions, and all efforts to develop the graphical subsystem shifted to the advancement of the Wayland protocol.
June 19 is also considered the birthday of the FreeBSD project, which turned 31 years old. On June 19, 1993, a fork of 4.3BSD was created based on an unofficial set of patches for 386BSD, aimed at developing a fast, stable, and reliable OS for i386 processor systems. In choosing the project name, options such as FreeBSD, BSDFree86, and Free86BSD were considered. Ultimately, preference was given to the name FreeBSD, proposed by David Greenman. In November 1993, the first release FreeBSD 1.0 was issued based on 4.3BSD-Lite ‘Net/2’ and 386BSD 0.1.
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