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The Term 'Open Source' Is Proposed and the OSI Forms in 1998
How a strategy meeting, Netscape's source release, and the Debian Free Software Guidelines produced a new advocacy label.
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Docker Donates containerd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Docker donated containerd to the CNCF in 2017, giving the ecosystem a neutral, focused runtime foundation later adopted directly by Kubernetes.
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Kubernetes Removes Dockershim in Version 1.24
Kubernetes 1.24 removed dockershim after a long deprecation, moving nodes to CRI-native runtimes without invalidating Docker-built OCI images.
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Helm Is Born at the First KubeCon, Modeled on Homebrew and apt
Helm began at Deis in 2015, merged ideas with Deployment Manager, removed Tiller in Helm 3, and matured into Kubernetes package management.
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The Open Container Initiative Launches, Standardizing Container Formats
The OCI launched in 2015 to standardize container images, runtime bundles, execution, and distribution across competing tools and vendors.
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Prometheus Joins the CNCF as Its Second Hosted Project
Prometheus became the CNCF's second hosted project in 2016, placing metrics and alerting beside orchestration at the center of cloud native systems.
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FreeDOS 1.1 Ships, Six Years After 1.0
FreeDOS 1.1 arrived January 2, 2012 with kernel 2040, mTCP, initial UHCI USB support and UIDE, while its official notes documented installer limits.
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FreeDOS 1.4 Ships After Three Years, Refreshing Core Tools
FreeDOS 1.4 shipped April 5, 2025 with FreeCOM 0.86, FDISK and mTCP fixes, reorganized media, monthly-test-release input, and the proven 1.3 kernel.
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FreeDOS Turns 25, and Jim Hall Tells the Origin Story Again
FreeDOS marked 25 years on June 29, 2019 with Jim Hall's account of PD-DOS, early utilities, community-built FreeCOM and kernel work, and three stable releases.
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Microsoft Declares MS-DOS 6.22 and Earlier Obsolete
Microsoft's archived table records December 31, 2001 as DOS support retirement, but its surviving row names MS-DOS 6.0 rather than 6.22.
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