It's been 40 years since Robert Scheffler announced the creation of the X Window System protocol. The protocol traveled from the release of X1 to X11 in just three years, after which the state of X11 stabilized and over time only acquires extensions, but does not change its essence. For example, at one time such widespread features as XVideo, X Font Server, XKB, Xinerama, XCB, Multi-Pointer X, Present, DRI2, DRI3, RandR, X Input, etc. were presented as extensions. In 2011, an initiative to create the X12 protocol arose, but it did not go beyond discussions, and all activities on the development of the graphics subsystem focused on the development of the Wayland protocol.
June 19 is also considered the birthday of the FreeBSD project, which turned 31 years old. On June 19, 1993, based on an unofficial set of patches for 386BSD, a fork 4.3BSD was created, within which it was planned to develop a fast, stable and reliable OS for systems with i386 processors. When choosing a project name, FreeBSD, BSDFree86 and Free86BSD were considered as options. As a result, preference was given to the FreeBSD option proposed by David Greenman. In November 1993, the first release of FreeBSD 4.3 was released based on 2BSD-Lite 'Net/386' and 0.1BSD 1.0.
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