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INTRODUCTION
First introduced in late 1977, as 1BSD, BSD
is short for Berkeley Software
Distribution was an idea / operating system developed at the Computer
System Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at
Berkeley. Today BSD comes in various flavors such as BSDi Internet
Server (BSD/OS), FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD below is a brief
introduction to each of these flavors of BSD. BSDi Internet
Server (BSD/OS)
BSDi or BSD Inc. was founded in
1991 by some of
the leading CSRG computer scientists. BSD/OS is a full-function,
POSIX-compatible, Unix-like operating system for the 386, 486 and
Pentium architectures. BSDI believes in one-stop shopping, high levels
of integration and a product that requires payment of no external
licensing fees.
FreeBSD
Developed and maintained by a large team of
individuals. FreeBSD is a full function, POSIX-compatible, Unix-like
operating system for Intel compatible (x86), DEC Alpha and PC-98
architectures.
NetBSD
Developed and maintained by a large team of
individuals. NetBSD is another free version of BSD compatible with a
very large variety of platforms, from 64-bit Alpha servers to handheld
devices.
OpenBSD
Developed and maintained by a large team of
individuals. OpenBSD is multi-platform 4.4BSD-based Unix-like
operating system.
Mac OS X
Macintosh operating system based on BSD.
See our Unix
Network section for links to the official pages
for each of the links mentioned above.
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