FreeBSD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It has been characterized as "the unknown giant among free operating systems". It i...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD
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This is a simplified diagram of unix history. There are numerous derivative systems not listed in this chart, maybe 10 times more! In the recent past, many electronic companies had their own unix releases. This diagram is only the tip of an iceberg, with a penguin on it ;-). ... BSD History Chart from FreeBSD.
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The history of the Unix system and the BSD system in particular had shown the power of making the source available to the users. Instead of passively using the system, they actively worked to fix bugs, improve performance and functionality, and even add completely new features.
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www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html
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The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4 Doug McIlroy. Research Unix Reader. Michael G. Brown. The Role of BSD in the Development of Unix.
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bsd.phoenix.az.us/flavours/bsd-family-tree
bsd.phoenix.az.us/flavours/bsd-family-tree
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Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD, sometimes called Berkeley Unix) is the Unix derivative distributed by the University of California, Berkeley, starting in the 1970s. The name is also used collectively for the modern descendants of these distributions.
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ewh.ieee.org/sb/karachi/pnec/osh/bsd.html
ewh.ieee.org/sb/karachi/pnec/osh/bsd.html
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This talk provides a taxonomy of filesystem and storage development from 1979 to the present with the BSD Fast Filesystem as its focus. It describes the early performance work done by increasing the disk block size and by being aware of the disk geometry and using that knowledge to optimize rotational layout.
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2007.eurobsdcon.org/talk-bsd-ffs-history.html
2007.eurobsdcon.org/talk-bsd-ffs-history.html
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NetBSD took its roots from the original UCB 4.3BSD via the Networking/2 release and 386BSD. The NetBSD project was founded by Chris Demetriou, Theo de Raadt, Adam Glass and Charles M. Hannum. ... BSD timeline ... A more complete timeline is distributed as part of NetBSD in src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree.
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www.netbsd.org/Misc/history.html
www.netbsd.org/Misc/history.html
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In his talks about BSD history, McKusick describes 1BSD as the outgrowth of a "50 patches" list that had been floating around the labs for a while. It's possible that 1BSD was '78, but Bill Joy released improvements on Bell Labs Unix earlier than that.
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zork.net/~nick/mail/bsd-license-history-in-a-nutsac
zork.net/~nick/mail/bsd-license-history-in-a-nutsac
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To understand the differences between the various versions, let's briefly recap the history of BSD to understand how the different versions have developed.
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www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.phpr/10825_339305...
www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.phpr/10825_3393051_1
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