30 years have passed since the first working release of 386BSD, the progenitor of FreeBSD and NetBSD

On July 14, 1992, the first working release (0.1) of the 386BSD operating system was published, offering a BSD UNIX implementation for the i386 processors based on the 4.3BSD Net/2 developments. The system was equipped with a simplified installer, included a full networking stack, a modular kernel, and a role-based access control system. In March 1993 the NetBSD fork was formed on the basis of 386BSD 0.1 out of a desire to make patch acceptance more open and unify support for various architectures, and in June 1993 the FreeBSD project was founded on the basis of 4.3BSD-Lite 'Net/2' and 386BSD 0.1, which incorporates patches not included in 386BSD.

Source: opennet.ru

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