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• Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage

  18-07-2026 15:30 via theregister.com
  
  If there is a driving theme to The Java Story documentary, which debuted Friday on YouTube, it would be that even some of the most important and popular technologies come from humble beginnings. In this case, we're talking about a language that started life as a failed attempt at set-top box dominance and required a massive rewrite just days before its big conference debut. Today, Java consistently hovers near the top of the TIOBE programming language popularity index and remains widely used for
  
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• NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD

  18-07-2026 09:45 via theregister.com
  
  One of the most interesting BSD variants of the 2010s, NextBSD, has come back to life under new management. The Reg FOSS desk is intrigued. Aside from the homepage, there's a GitHub repository – but beware, this is separate from the old one, whose repo is still there although the most recent changes were seven years ago. The new project also has a project history giving credit where it's due. The main man behind the revival is Joe Maloney, known on GitHub as pkgdemon. In case his name ring
  
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