Posted May 22, 2008 4:39 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599)
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A quick review of some of the history behind the current crop of BSDs might have been nice, too.
Greg
The Freedom of Fork
Posted May 25, 2008 1:27 UTC (Sun) by Flameeyes (guest, #51238)
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I sincerely can't think of Xorg too much as a fork sincerely, mostly
because I haven't seen XFree doing anything in a long time. I was looking
at forks that worked somewhat in parallel for a while at least. It's a
bit like Ethereal and Wireshark, while technically a fork, the latter is
considered more like a continuation with a different name.
For what concerns BSDs... they'd be worth a long article on their own,
their history is quite contorted. Other names are missing, sure, like
Wine and its derivatives, or OpenOffice and NeoOffice (on OSX). I suppose
it could be a good topic for a series, looking deeply at the history of a
specific project and its forks/children.