The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix or BSD Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by...
26 KB (2,872 words) - 11:34, 2 May 2025
The history of the Berkeley Software Distribution began in the 1970s when University of California, Berkeley received a copy of Unix. Professors and students...
29 KB (3,630 words) - 02:23, 31 May 2025
January 1992. The name was chosen for its similarity to BSD ("Berkeley Software Distribution"), the source of its primary product, specifically 4.3BSD Networking...
10 KB (912 words) - 16:22, 16 April 2025
with Berkeley sockets, but they are also known as BSD sockets, acknowledging the first implementation in the Berkeley Software Distribution. Berkeley sockets...
29 KB (3,502 words) - 22:52, 30 June 2025
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...
31 KB (3,361 words) - 16:19, 25 June 2025
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The suit has its roots at the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley,...
8 KB (1,024 words) - 20:14, 19 May 2025
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...
46 KB (2,765 words) - 14:55, 30 June 2025
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...
21 KB (949 words) - 21:46, 24 April 2025
the term "free software" had already been used loosely in the past and other permissive software like the Berkeley Software Distribution released in 1978...
52 KB (5,526 words) - 23:40, 24 June 2025
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...
34 KB (4,131 words) - 01:29, 17 May 2025
Parkinson's example; it was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by the Danish software developer Poul-Henning Kamp in 1999 and, due...
11 KB (1,316 words) - 15:17, 24 May 2025
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...
6 KB (608 words) - 20:59, 2 April 2025
license, a permissive free-software license. The term was presented by computer scientist and Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) contributor Marshall...
24 KB (2,535 words) - 04:40, 3 June 2025
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...
9 KB (667 words) - 23:45, 15 February 2025
Look up BSD in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. BSD is the Berkeley Software Distribution, a free Unix-like operating system, and numerous variants. BSD...
2 KB (333 words) - 19:43, 21 April 2025
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...
34 KB (4,117 words) - 00:44, 24 May 2025
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...
13 KB (1,165 words) - 12:46, 21 January 2024
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...
48 KB (3,826 words) - 15:24, 27 May 2025
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...
12 KB (920 words) - 08:08, 13 June 2025
Computer Systems Research Group (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
Berkeley acquired a UNIX source license from AT&T in 1974. His group started to modify UNIX, and distributed their version as the Berkeley Software Distribution...
6 KB (654 words) - 03:41, 21 April 2025
386BSD (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
free code from Net/2. Jolitz also claims that 386BSD was the base of Berkeley Software Design (BSDi)'s commercial BSD/386. 386BSD was short-lived as disagreements...
17 KB (1,795 words) - 08:32, 21 May 2025
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...
4 KB (299 words) - 06:21, 30 June 2025
proprietary software, such as Berkeley Software Distribution, TeX, and the X Window System. As free software developed, the Free Software Foundation began...
77 KB (9,432 words) - 02:39, 21 June 2025
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...
12 KB (1,204 words) - 13:16, 18 June 2025
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...
4 KB (369 words) - 01:24, 20 November 2023
Sleepycat Software, Inc. was the software company primarily responsible for maintaining the Berkeley DB packages from 1996 to 2006. Berkeley DB is freely-licensed...
6 KB (346 words) - 20:18, 18 April 2025
system Berkeley Software Distribution, a Unix operating system Berkeley (film), a 2005 drama directed by Bobby Roth Berkeley Hundred or Berkeley Plantation...
4 KB (495 words) - 20:13, 17 June 2023
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...
17 KB (1,966 words) - 06:52, 12 March 2025
Ultrix (category Berkeley Software Distribution)
to concentrate on working with the University of California, Berkeley's 4BSD. Berkeley's Bill Joy came to New Hampshire to work with Shannon and Stettner...
15 KB (1,694 words) - 07:23, 28 June 2025
scientific collaboration: the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), named after the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. Copyleft licenses (also...
34 KB (3,604 words) - 09:45, 30 May 2025