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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 the early 1980's (
1983, 1984?)
. 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]. BSD4.2 was perhaps the most influential version. Released in September
1983. They are all released under the [BSDLicense].
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+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).
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+* [386BSD]%%%Bill Jolitz free BSD wich was the fondation for [NetBSD] and [FreeBSD].
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+* [BSD/386]%%%[BSDi]s first commercial release over wich they were sued together with University of Carlifornia by UNIX System Laboratories.
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+* [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.
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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|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.
-* [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.
+* [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:
-* [BSDi|http:
//www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/BSDI.html
]
+* [BSD
/OS
]
* Berkeley DataBase
etc...
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