The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix or BSD Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by...
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The history of the Berkeley Software Distribution began in the 1970s when University of California, Berkeley received a copy of Unix. Professors and students...
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January 1992. The name was chosen for its similarity to BSD ("Berkeley Software Distribution"), the source of its primary product, specifically 4.3BSD Networking...
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Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The suit has its roots at the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley,...
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with Berkeley sockets, but they are also known as BSD sockets, acknowledging the first implementation in the Berkeley Software Distribution. Berkeley sockets...
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BSD licenses (redirect from Berkeley Software Distribution licenses)
requirements. The original BSD license was used for its namesake, the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Unix-like operating system. The original version has...
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Vi (text editor) (category Software using the BSD license)
Chuck Haley. Joy's ex 1.1 was released as part of the first Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix release in March 1978. It was not until version 2...
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Sleepycat Software, Inc. was the software company primarily responsible for maintaining the Berkeley DB packages from 1996 to 2006. Berkeley DB is freely-licensed...
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Darwin (operating system) (redirect from Darwin (software))
project that ports packages of free software to Darwin. They package OS images in a way similar to a Linux distribution. The Darwine project was a port of...
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BSD/OS (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
developed and sold by Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDi) and designed to be a Unix for 386-based PCs. It was built off the Net/2 distribution of BSD, on which...
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Rogue (video game) (category Free software that uses ncurses)
as a freely distributed executable. It is listed in the 4th Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX programmer's manual of November 1980, as one of 28 games...
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the term "free software" had already been used loosely in the past and other permissive software like the Berkeley Software Distribution released in 1978...
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MirOS BSD (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
policy of faster software availability to the user, many ports removed for political reasons in OpenBSD (e.g. all the DJB software or the Flash Plugin)...
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Parkinson's example; it was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by the Danish software developer Poul-Henning Kamp in 1999 and, due...
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projects in modern computer history. Its offspring include Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix, the reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processor...
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Comparison of BSD operating systems (redirect from Comparison of BSD distributions)
Unix-like operating systems based on or descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of Unix variant options. The three most notable...
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license, a permissive free-software license. The term was presented by computer scientist and Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) contributor Marshall...
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an American software engineer and one of the key people in the history of Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix and open-source software. In 1986, Bostic...
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SunOS (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems from 1982 until the mid-1990s...
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scientific collaboration: the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), named after the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. Copyleft licenses (also...
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ALTQ (category Free software programmed in C)
ALTQ (ALTernate Queueing) is the network scheduler for Berkeley Software Distribution. ALTQ provides queueing disciplines, and other components related...
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Look up BSD in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. BSD is the Berkeley Software Distribution, a free Unix-like operating system, and numerous variants. BSD...
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Unix File System (redirect from Berkeley Fast File System)
blocks they referred to caused thrashing. Marshall Kirk McKusick, then a Berkeley graduate student, optimized the V7 FS layout to create BSD 4.2's FFS (Fast...
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Mt Xinu (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
interoperability software for Macintosh and Unix, including an AppleShare server for Unix. The company's principals were University of California, Berkeley computer...
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Lumina (desktop environment) (redirect from Lumina (software))
and systems derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) in general, but it has been ported to various Linux distributions. (Development of TrueOS...
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system Berkeley Software Distribution, a Unix operating system Berkeley (film), a 2005 drama directed by Bobby Roth Berkeley Hundred or Berkeley Plantation...
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proprietary software, such as Berkeley Software Distribution, TeX, and the X Window System. As free software developed, the Free Software Foundation began...
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List of BSD operating systems (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of UNIX variants developed (originally by Bill Joy) at the University of California, Berkeley, Department...
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Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX) Multigate device...
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The Berkeley printing system is one of several standard architectures for printing on the Unix platform. It originated in 2.10BSD,[citation needed] and...
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