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Re: What is BSD?

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 18 00:03:46 2014, in response to What is BSD?, posted by Express Rider on Fri Oct 17 23:55:49 2014.

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BSD was the original, first Unix system, dates back to the earliest AT&T work at Basking Ridge. There's numerous BSD's, FreeBSD (the original), OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD and many others. FreeBSD is the mother root. Microsoft used FreeBSD code for their earliest internet stuff in Win 3.1, NeXT Computer (which became OS X) used FreeBSD and still has most of the original code. BSD if you want to go historical was Berkeley Software Distribution, still owned by University of California at Berkeley although it's been largely maintained until lately by SUNY Buffalo.

The other BSD's are forks off the original 4.3 version. We used FreeBSD and forked from it at Version 6.0 and are currently still working with them at Version 10.0 now. BSD is a true Unix system, but the foundation wasn't interested in paying extortion to have it "certified" since there's little need for those in the know. Linux on the other hand is not really a Unix system, it's a "clone" developed by Linus Torvalds because he couldn't afford a true Unix license from AT&T when he was in school, so he "emulated" it with his own code.

When AT&T came after BSD (who had prior patents) and lost, suddenly there was no more license fees for Unix any longer and AT&T gave up on "SYSTEM V" which was their Unix. To quote Linus himself, "If BSD were available on the '386 architecture, I most likely would not have created Linux."

Ref: https://www.google.com/search?q=linus%20torvalds%22if%20bsd%22&gws_rd=ssl

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