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INTRODUCTION

First introduced in late 1977, as 1BSD, BSD is short for Berkeley Software Distribution was an idea / operating system developed at the Computer System Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at Berkeley. Today, BSD comes in various flavors such as BSDi Internet Server (BSD/OS), FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD below is a brief introduction to each of these flavors of BSD.

BSDi Internet Server (BSD/OS)

BSDi or BSD Inc. was founded in 1991 by some of the leading CSRG computer scientists. BSD/OS is a full-function, POSIX-compatible, Unix-like operating system for the 386, 486 and Pentium architectures. BSDI believes in one-stop shopping, high levels of integration and a product that requires payment of no external licensing fees.

FreeBSD

Developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD is a full function, POSIX-compatible, Unix-like operating system for Intel compatible (x86), DEC Alpha and PC-98 architectures. 

NetBSD

Developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. NetBSD is another free version of BSD compatible with a very large variety of platforms, from 64-bit Alpha servers to handheld devices.

OpenBSD

Developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. OpenBSD is multi-platform  4.4BSD-based Unix-like operating system.

Mac OS X

Macintosh operating system based on BSD.

 

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