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Provided by: kuro5hin.org/section/tech1662012-05-16 16:20:52science / kuro5hin.org/section/tech /: PLOT: Five couples experience the joy, as well as the pitfalls (not to mention pratfalls) of having a baby. REVIEW: WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOUtechnology and culture, from the trenches The various Berkeley Software Distribution operating systems, having been nearly destroyed in an ugly lawsuit with AT&T, have had a challenging past. FreeBSD has been the only non-commercial Berkeley unix to have had any measure of real success and, to this day, the hangover of its early legal woes still stymies its popular use outside of industry despite improvements to its codebase.The infamous AT&T/BSD lawsuits caused FreeBSD to jettison two-thirds of its codebase and start over from scratch, knocking its feature-set back several years, causing it to be bought out and divested by hopeful investors and only reaching robustness with code infusions from two commercial unix systems, BSD/OS and Mac OS X.So as FreeBSD heads toward its milestone tenth release, it is Apple's platform that has been the center of gravity for the demonic operating system, largely in part by Apple's open-source efforts that have been more and more contributing code back into the main FreeBSD development branch. It obviously won't be long until the two are completely merged--so when thinking of 2014 and FreeBSD 10, starting thinking "FreeBSD X."But first, how did we get here? What did BSD/OS contribute or, more importantly, how did it take away from FreeBSD? And what exactly does FreeBSD 10 look like? What is Apple's role in the operating system? Important questions to be answered, picking up from after the lawsuits... (From http://www.trollaxor.com/2012/05/freebsd-x-berkeley-unix-apple-quality.html.)

Provided by: space.com1672012-05-16 16:00:20science / space.com /: Final preparations are underway for the launch of the Inflatable Re-Entry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE3). It will be launched aboard a sounding rocket and the materials that make up the inflated heat shield will be put to the test on re-entry.

Provided by: space.com1682012-05-16 15:20:10science / space.com /: The photo was taken by Elektro-L No. 1, a Russian weather satellite.

Provided by: space.com1692012-05-16 14:26:13science / space.com /: Test your knowledge of Earth's closest star.

Provided by: space.com1702012-05-16 13:34:42science / space.com /: The satellite never achieved usable orbit.

Provided by: space.com1712012-05-16 13:54:17science / space.com /: The Ariane 5 rocket blasted off from South America carrying JCSAT-13 and VINASAT-2.

Provided by: space.com1722012-05-16 13:55:20science / space.com /: Learn about the people who watch what the sun is dishing out.

Provided by: wired.com/science/discoveries/1732011-06-05 11:00:00science / wired.com/science/discoveries/ /: On the 30th anniversary of the first notice of HIV-AIDS, we look back at the beginnings in this three-part book excerpt from Beating Back the Devil by Superbug's Maryn Mckenna.

Provided by: space.com1742012-05-16 11:39:43science / space.com /: From Enceladus and Titan to Europa and Mars, here are the likeliest spots to find extraterrestrials.

Provided by: space.com1752012-05-16 11:39:53science / space.com /: An upcoming rocket launch could be a watershed moment for private spaceflight.

Provided by: space.com1762012-05-16 11:34:28science / space.com /: The elliptical Centaurus A galaxy is located about 12 million light-years away.

Provided by: space.com1772012-05-16 10:11:45science / space.com /: The odd elliptical galaxy, Centaurus A (NGC 5128) has an active supermassive black hole at its core. Europe's MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope in Chile captured these images.

Provided by: space.com1781970-01-01 00:00:00science / space.com /: 04qxVNDao4c Tex Murphy: Project Fedora (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/251414413/tex-murphy-project-fedora) has begun its Kickstarter drive. So far they've made $108,000 of their $450,000 goal. ---Quote--- An error was ecnountered attempting to get the RSS data: An unknown error occurred. Something amazing every day. Several companies are competing for funding under the next round of NASA's commercial crew program.

Provided by: space.com1792012-05-15 20:41:07science / space.com /: PLOT: Five couples experience the joy, as well as the pitfalls (not to mention pratfalls) of having a baby. REVIEW: WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOUSomething amazing every day. Several companies are competing for funding under the next round of NASA's commercial crew program.

Provided by: space.com1801970-01-01 00:00:00science / space.com /: Isabelle Fuhrman ( The Hunger Games , Orphan ) is set to headline David Gordon Green's Suspiria , Crime Scene Pictures announced today. The just-revealed cast also includes Isabelle Huppert ( Amour , The Piano Teacher ), Janet McTeer ( Albert Nobbs , The Woman in Black ), Michael Nyqvist ( Mission: Impossible Something amazing every day. Several companies are competing for funding under the next round of NASA's commercial crew program.

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