[$] FreeBSD turns 26

The FreeBSD operating system is continuing
to make progress, 26 years after it got its name. Among the areas where
work is being done is on
improved support for RISC-V, FUSE
filesystem updates, C runtime changes, and security improvements. FreeBSD
Day is celebrated on June 19, in recognition of the date in 1993 when
the name FreeBSD was coined for
a fork of the 386BSD project. The first official release
of FreeBSD did not occur until November 1, 1993, however.

Ahead of FreeBSD
Day, the project released its quarterly
report for the first quarter of 2019, outlining some of its ongoing
efforts. In addition to the quarterly report, the executive director of the
FreeBSD Foundation provided LWN with some insights into the state of the
project and the foundation that supports it.