• 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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    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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    NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It was the first open-source BSD descendant...
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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The FreeBSD Documentation License is the license that covers most of the documentation for the FreeBSD operating system. The license is very similar to...
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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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    Portage. Portage is similar to the BSD-style package management known as ports, and was originally designed with FreeBSD's ports in mind. Portage is written...
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    NextBSD was an operating system initially based on the trunk version of FreeBSD as of August 2015. It was a fork of FreeBSD which implemented new features...
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  • Kqueue (category BSD software)
    notification interface introduced in FreeBSD 4.1 in July 2000, also supported in NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and macOS. Kqueue was originally authored...
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  • The FreeBSD Ports collection is a package management system for the FreeBSD operating system. As of February 2020, there are over 38,487 ports available...
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  • bzip2. The tar command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system. BSD-tar has been included in Microsoft Windows since Windows 10 April 2018 Update...
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  • Bahamian dollar (redirect from ISO 4217:BSD)
    The dollar (sign: $; code: BSD) has been the currency of The Bahamas since 1966. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively B$...
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    Most ncurses calls can be easily ported to the old curses. System V curses implementations can support BSD curses programs with just a recompilation. However...
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  • multiple files at once. Other tools are available to edit XHTML. Also BSD Older Eclipse plugin versions work in current (Indigo) Eclipse. Plugin version...
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    Minix (category Software using the BSD license)
    has been free and open-source software since it was relicensed under the BSD-3-Clause license in April 2000. Andrew S. Tanenbaum created MINIX at Vrije...
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  • being closer to BSD than they were to UNIX System V, which also included some BSD code: Research Unix 8th Edition started from (I think) BSD 4.1c, but with...
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  • GNU variants (redirect from GNU/kFreeBSD)
    include most operating systems using the Linux kernel and a few others using BSD-based kernels. GNU users usually obtain their operating system by downloading...
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  • Giant lock (section BSD)
    systems, only Linux, DragonFly BSD and FreeBSD have modern SMP support, with OpenBSD and NetBSD falling behind. The NetBSD Foundation views modern SMP support...
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  • Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code derived from NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD, other BSD operating systems, Mach, and other free software projects' code, as...
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    diverged from the functionality provided by the init in Research Unix and its BSD derivatives. Up until the early 2010s,[failed verification] most Linux distributions...
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  • partitions, virtual environments (VEs), virtual kernels (DragonFly BSD), or jails (FreeBSD jail or chroot jail). Such instances may look like real computers...
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    variations, such as BSD curses in the NetBSD project. Although the ncurses library was initially developed under Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD, it has been...
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    the BSD community saw a new open source mdoc.su service launched, which unified and shortened access to the man.cgi scripts of the major modern BSD projects...
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    X86-64 (section BSD)
    refer to both AMD64 and Intel 64. amd64 Most BSD systems such as FreeBSD, MidnightBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD refer to both AMD64 and Intel 64 under the architecture...
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  • Bionic (software) (category Software using the BSD license)
    It is a combination of new code and code from FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD released under a BSD license, rather than glibc, which uses the GNU Lesser...
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