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;: There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. %%% -- ''Jeremy S. Anderson''

Because [AT&T] stopped providing the SourceCode to [UNIX] with the advent of [UNIX] [SystemV], the [UCB] continued to develop older versions of [UNIX] and eventually released their variant as [Free] under the [BSDLicense].

AddToMe: the following should be a timeline -- http://www.applelust.com/alust/terminal/archives/terminal041202.shtml is a good reference to take from

''Or [this | http://nevada.net.nz/~pmurray/bsd-family-tree] file, included in FreeBSD. -- PhilMurray''

''http://www.openbsd.org/images/poster8.jpg alone is proof of BSD being a total and complete win -- BryceUtting''

;  %%% [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. (which didn't help much anyway).
;  %%% [386BSD] : Bill Jolitz free BSD which was the foundation for [NetBSD] and [FreeBSD].
;  %%% [BSD/386] : [BSDi]'s first commercial release over which 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. It has five major [Fork]s:
;; %%% [FreeBSD] : 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 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] : 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.
;; %%% [BSD/OS] : The licensing issue clean commercial [BSDi | http://www.bsdi.com].
;; %%% [Darwin] : The core OperatingSystem behind [MacOSX]

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