diff --git a/share/xml/news.xml b/share/xml/news.xml index a9c270fef3..851bf53259 100644 --- a/share/xml/news.xml +++ b/share/xml/news.xml @@ -33,6 +33,29 @@ <month> <name>6</name> + <day> + <name>19</name> + + <event> + <title>Happy Birthday &os;!</title> + + <p>&os; celebrated its + <a href="http://FreeBSD.org/news/1993/freebsd-coined.html">20th birthday</a> + today. On June 19, 1993, Jordan Hubbard, Rod Grimes, and + David Greenman announced to the world the creation of + their new fork of the BSD 4.3 operating system.</p> + + <p>&os; was derived from the 386BSD 0.1 release from Bill and + Lynne Jolitz with its 1.0 release in Nov 1993. Its + stated goals were to create a fast, stable, reliable + server OS for i386 systems.</p> + + <p>Since then, it has become the backbone of countless + products and has grown to supporting 64bit computing, + embedded devices, and desktop users.</p> + </event> + </day> + <day> <name>11</name>