Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from BSD Unix)
Berkeley. The term "BSD" commonly refers to its open-source descendants, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD. BSD was initially called...
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BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is...
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FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version of FreeBSD was...
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NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It was the first open-source BSD descendant...
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Comparison of BSD operating systems List of BSD operating systems FreeBSD Darwin (operating system) DesktopBSD MidnightBSD TrueOS NetBSD OpenBSD "GhostBSD is switching...
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BSD/OS (originally called BSD/386 and sometimes known as BSDi) is a discontinued proprietary version of the BSD operating system developed by Berkeley...
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PacBSD (formerly known as Arch BSD) was an operating system based on Arch Linux, but used the FreeBSD kernel instead of the Linux kernel and the GNU userland...
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Distribution (BSD) series of Unix variant options. The three most notable descendants in current use are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, which are all...
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The BSD Daemon, nicknamed Beastie, is the generic mascot of BSD operating systems. The BSD Daemon is named after software daemons, a class of long-running...
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OpenBSD is a security-focused, free and open-source, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created...
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DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early...
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BSD Authentication, otherwise known as BSD Auth, is an authentication framework and software API employed by OpenBSD and accompanying software such as...
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The final release of FreeBSD 2, 2.2.8-RELEASE, was announced on 29 November 1998. FreeBSD 2.0 was the first version of FreeBSD to be claimed legally free...
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History of the Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from History of BSD)
open source BSDs: FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, which are all derived from 386BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite by various routes. Both NetBSD and FreeBSD started life...
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MIT License (section BSD)
By doing so, it forms a public-domain-equivalent license, the same way as BSD Zero Clause.[citation needed] It has the following terms: MIT No Attribution...
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early 2000s[update], there are four major BSD operating systems–FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD, and an increasing number of other OSs forked...
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Permissive software license (redirect from BSD-style licence)
A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections,...
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PicoBSD is a discontinued single-floppy disk version of FreeBSD, one of the BSD operating system descendants. In its different variations, PicoBSD allows...
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up BSD in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. BSD is the Berkeley Software Distribution, a free Unix-like operating system, and numerous variants. BSD may...
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The BSD checksum algorithm was a commonly used, legacy checksum algorithm. It has been implemented in old BSD and is also available through the sum command...
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C standard library (redirect from BSD libc)
following: The BSD libc, various implementations distributed with BSD-derived operating systems GNU C Library (glibc), used in GNU Hurd, GNU/kFreeBSD and Linux...
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MirOS BSD (originally called MirBSD) is a free and open source operating system which started as a fork of OpenBSD 3.1 in August 2002. It was intended...
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BSD City, formerly referred to Bumi Serpong Damai is a planned community located within Greater Jakarta in Indonesia. The project was initiated in 1984...
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Portage (software) (redirect from Gentoo/FreeBSD)
other operating systems, such as BSDs, macOS and Solaris. The most notable of these implementations is the Gentoo/FreeBSD project. There is an ongoing effort...
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Unix variants from vendors including University of California, Berkeley (BSD), Microsoft (Xenix), Sun Microsystems (SunOS/Solaris), HP/HPE (HP-UX), and...
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Free-software license (redirect from BSD vs. GPL license)
Compiler Collection, which was initially published in 1987. The original BSD license is also one of the first free-software licenses, dating to 1988....
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MidnightBSD is a free Unix, desktop-oriented operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 6.1, and periodically updated with code and drivers from later...
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Operating system (section BSD and its descendants)
legal disputes, the BSD project spawned a number of free derivatives, such as NetBSD and FreeBSD (both in 1993), and OpenBSD (from NetBSD in 1995). macOS...
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DesktopBSD was a Unix-derived, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. Its goal was to combine the stability of FreeBSD with the ease of use...
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