The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by the Computer...
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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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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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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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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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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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license, a permissive free-software license. The term was presented by computer scientist and Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) contributor Marshall...
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MirOS BSD (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
ended up working on MirOS BSD for a while. Unlike the three major BSD distributions, MirOS BSD supports only the x86 and SPARC architectures. MirOS BSD...
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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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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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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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incorporated the r-commands into their Unix operating system, the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The r-commands premiered in BSD v4.1. Among the programs...
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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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live playback tool for Unix-like systems such as Linux and Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Supported sound formats include MP3, AIFF, WAV, Speex...
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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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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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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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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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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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Nvi (category Software using the BSD license)
systems. It was originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD). Due to licensing disputes between AT&T and the Computer...
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BIND (redirect from Berkeley Internet Name Domain)
BIND is for Berkeley Internet Name Domain, from a technical paper published in 1984. It was first released with Berkeley Software Distribution 4.3BSD. Versions...
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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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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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Version 7 Unix (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
released in 1979, was the last Bell Laboratories release to see widespread distribution before the commercialization of Unix by AT&T Corporation in the early...
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