Real, dated releases and announcements — verified against official sources, not speculation.
Be Inc. gave away BeOS 5 Personal Edition for free, installable as a single file that lived inside your existing Windows or Linux system. More than 100,000 people pre-registered before it even launched.
Nintendo sued Yuzu developer Tropic Haze in February 2024 alleging the Switch emulator existed to facilitate piracy at scale. Within days, Yuzu was gone — and its sister project Citra went down with it.
The company behind BeOS — the operating system Haiku would later reimplement as open source — completed its IPO in July 1999, at the height of the dot-com boom, years before the open-source project this blog covers even began.
Sony sued Connectix over its Virtual Game Station PS1 emulator, arguing that copying the PlayStation BIOS during development was copyright infringement. The Ninth Circuit disagreed — and the ruling still underpins console emulation's legal footing today.
HashiCorp moved Terraform to the Business Source License on August 10, 2023; within six weeks, a community fork called OpenTF (soon renamed OpenTofu) had gathered 33,000 GitHub stars and joined the Linux Foundation.
Marking a quarter-century since the June 1994 announcement, FreeDOS's 25th anniversary in 2019 brought renewed attention from Slashdot, Opensource.com, and Linux Journal to a project still actively releasing new versions.
Announced by Linus Torvalds in September 2024 and landing in kernel 6.12, PREEMPT_RT ended nearly two decades as an out-of-tree patchset — real-time Linux no longer needs a custom kernel build.
Released September 25, 2017, High Sierra automatically converted flash-storage Macs to Apple File System — the biggest filesystem transition on the Mac in nearly two decades.
Announced at Build 2019 and pushed to GitHub on May 3, 2019, Windows Terminal brought tabs and modern rendering to the Windows command line — while making both it and the underlying console host genuinely open source.
Deprecated in December 2020 and fully removed in the April 2022 release of Kubernetes 1.24, dockershim's removal ended direct Docker Engine support in kubelet — a roughly 16-month migration window the project deliberately built in.