Wow. It’s awesome that this is the case. We should have some sort of a celebration. :)
ReactOS is much more fringe than we are. GNUstep is used a bit more both in open source and commercial projects. Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / Black Lotus, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=352392 - Become a Patron https://www.openhub.net/languages/objective_c https://www.gofundme.com/f/cacao-linux-a-gnustep-reference-implementation On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 16:29 [email protected] via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming environment < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi 'Steppers, > > > according to http://gnustep.made-it.com/Guides/History.html on May 11, > 2026 we may celebrate GNUsteps 35th birthday, if I am not mistaken. > > Depending on what we count as birthdate of GNUstep: > > - the first coining of the term > - the first commit in our repos > > > We could use the anniversary for spreading the word about GNUstep if we > get some publications to write an article about us. > > > How did I come about this? Because of this article in the largest European > IT-news site (as they claim by themselves): > > > https://www.heise.de/en/news/Windows-XP-clone-ReactOS-turns-30-11161247.html > > > I don’t know who is more fringe: ReactOS or we … :-))) SCNR! > > > Kind regards, > > Lars >
