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 BerkeleySoftwareDistribution, or perhaps BusinessSystemsDevelopments. 
  
-"*BSD" is often used when talking about [FreeBSD], [NetBSD] and [OpenBSD] as a group. They all originally came from the same source code, the Berkeley Software Distribution from the [University of Calfornia, Berkeley|UCB]. BSD4 .2 was perhaps the most influential version. Released in September 1983. They are all released under the [BSDLicense]. 
+"*BSD" is often used when talking about [FreeBSD], [NetBSD] and [OpenBSD] as a group. They all originally came from the same source code, the Berkeley Software Distribution from the [University of Calfornia, Berkeley|UCB]. 4 .2BSD was perhaps the most influential version, released in September 1983. They are all released under the [BSDLicense]. 
  
 Has a few Old distributions: 
-* [4.3BSD_Net/2]%%%The first ''almost'' clean release. Was released with 6 missing files due to licence complications (wich didn't help much anyway). 
+* [4.3BSD_Net/2]%%%The first ''almost'' clean release. Was released with 6 missing files so it wouldn't need a AT&T [UNIX] licence. (wich didn't help much anyway). 
  
 * [386BSD]%%%Bill Jolitz free BSD wich was the fondation for [NetBSD] and [FreeBSD]. 
  
 * [BSD/386]%%%[BSDi]s first commercial release over wich they were sued together with University of Carlifornia by UNIX System Laboratories. 
  
 * [4.4BSD-Lite]%%%The ''blessed'' release, everything based on this has a ''get out of jail free'' card thanks to [Novell]. This release is what came out from the USL suit. 
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-* [BSD/OS]%%%[BSDi]s commercial BSD dist based on 4.4BSD-Lite.  
  
  
 Has a few Free distributions: 
 * [FreeBSD] [FreeBSD.org|http://www.freebsd.org]%%%FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for Intel ia32 compatible, DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. It is derived from BSD UNIX, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. 
  
-* [NetBSD] [NetBSD|http://www.netbsd.org]%%%NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable UNIX-like operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit [Alpha]Servers and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. 
+* [NetBSD] [NetBSD|http://www.netbsd.org]%%%NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable UNIX-like operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit [Alpha]Servers and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices, and even [PlayStation2]
  
 * [OpenBSD] [OpenBSD|http://www.openbsd.org/]%%%The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. 
  
 and a few others: 
-* [BSD/OS] 
+* [BSD/OS] [ BSDi | http://www.bsdi.com ]%%%The commercial BSD.  
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 * Berkeley DataBase 
 etc... 
  
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