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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by init. The init process in Research Unix and BSD starts daemons from an initialization script. A daemon started as a command in an initialization script...
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Originally, OpenBSD used the BSD daemon as a mascot, sometimes with an added halo as a distinguishing mark, but OpenBSD later replaced its BSD daemon with Puffy...
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Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from BSD Unix)
the foundation for Apple Inc.'s macOS. BSD Daemon BSD licenses Comparison of BSD operating systems List of BSD operating systems Lumina (desktop environment)...
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OpenBSD is a security-focused, free software, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created OpenBSD...
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LLVM/Clang compiler. ClangBSD became self-hosting on 16 April 2010. For many years FreeBSD's logo was the generic BSD Daemon, also called Beastie, a distorted...
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Demon (disambiguation) (redirect from Dæmon)
Unix services Demon Internet, an Internet service provider BSD Daemon, a mascot for the BSD operating system Unclean spirit, an agent of a demonic possession...
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Portage (software) (redirect from Gentoo/*BSD)
the BSD Daemon. It was designed by Marius Morawski, responding to an unofficial contest launched by Diego Elio Pettenò on his blog. Gentoo/NetBSD is a...
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History of the Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from History of BSD)
software portal BSD Daemon BSD licenses Comparison of BSD operating systems List of BSD operating systems Salus, Peter H. (2005). "Chapter 7. BSD and the CSRG"...
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The FreeDOS Project". www.freedos.org. Retrieved 20 July 2017. "History of BSD T-shirts". www.mckusick.com. Retrieved 20 July 2017. "8 Famous Mascots Whose...
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Routing Information Protocol (redirect from Routed daemon)
router discovery routing daemon". FreeBSD manual pages. "routed, rdisc – network RIP and router discovery routing daemon". NetBSD manual pages. "ripd – Routing...
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Marshall Kirk McKusick (category BSD people)
influential in the development of the BSD descendants.[citation needed] The BSD Daemon, often used to identify BSD, is copyrighted by Marshall Kirk McKusick...
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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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Secure Shell (redirect from Secure Shell daemon)
operating systems, including macOS, most distributions of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and OpenVMS. Notably, versions of Windows prior to Windows...
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and open-source software portal List of computing mascots BSD Daemon, the mascot of various BSD releases Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny, the mascot of Plan 9...
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Printer Daemon Protocol. Network Printing Working Group. doi:10.17487/RFC1179. RFC 1179. Informational. Winet's InetLPD server documentation. FreeBSD LPD...
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files are stored where the lists of jobs and other instructions to the cron daemon are kept. Users can have their own individual crontab files and often there...
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portal FreeBSD macOS Darwin BSD Daemon BSD licenses Comparison of BSD operating systems List of BSD operating systems NextBSD website - Archive.Org capture...
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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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Init (redirect from System V init daemon)
first process started during booting of the operating system. Init is a daemon process that continues running until the system is shut down. It is the...
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IRCd (redirect from IRC Daemon)
An IRCd, short for Internet Relay Chat daemon, is server software that implements the IRC protocol, enabling people to talk to each other via the Internet...
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did not provide an init replacement, but aimed to provide OpenBSD with compatible daemons for hostnamed, timedated, localed, and logind. The project did...
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JACK; a recursive acronym) is a professional sound server API and pair of daemon implementations to provide real-time, low-latency connections for both audio...
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OpenNTPD (category BSD software)
OpenNTPD (also known as OpenBSD NTP Daemon) is a Unix daemon implementing the Network Time Protocol to synchronize the local clock of a computer system...
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login system for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It comprises a login daemon, a login user interface, and a system for tracking login sessions. When...
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Unix wars (section BSD and the rise of Linux)
was soon succeeded by FreeBSD and NetBSD. OpenBSD emerged in 1995 as a fork of NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD as a fork from FreeBSD in 2003. Mac OS X v10.5...
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OpenRC (category Software using the BSD license)
management system and a daemon supervisor (optional). It is written in C and POSIX-compliant shell, making it usable on BSD and Linux systems. The core...
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Boss) Bojack (Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound) The Boogeyman, (Boogeyman) BSD Daemon a.k.a. Beastie (Berkeley Software Distribution) Brady (Supernatural TV...
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Quagga (software) (redirect from Quagga Internet routing daemon)
and IS-IS for Unix-like platforms, particularly Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and NetBSD. Quagga is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License...
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The first mainstream operating system to support ASLR by default was OpenBSD version 3.4 in 2003, followed by Linux in 2005. Address space randomization...
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