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BSD week – 4 BSD releases
In the last 7 days we’ve seen a new version released by each of the 4 major BSD operating systems: OpenBSD 4.5, NetBSD, FreeBSD 7.2 and a “minor” DragonFlyBSD release (2.2.1). Who said BSD was dying? Video 1 – “BSD is dying” (2007) - Video 2 – “BSD is still dying” (2009). NetBSD 5 NetBSD, well-known for its high portability has arrived at [...]
Continue reading...Blogs for “the other BSDs”: NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD
1. July 2008
This blog, FreeBSD – the unknown Giant, as the title suggests, covers only FreeBSD related stories and updates. However, over the last few months, I have received emails from my some readers asking why I don’t write about the “other BSDs”, such as OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonflyBSD. Well, the answer is quite simple: “There’s no need [...]
Continue reading...Exciting future ahead for BSD
25. January 2008
Trollaxor has written up an interesting piece about the history and future of the major BSD systems: FreeBSD, netBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD and Darwin. In the new year the Berkeley Software Distribution family of Unix-like operating systems is growing at a phenomenal rate and excitement over the possibilities for this operating system family is in the air. [...]
Continue reading...(Free)BSD myths dispelled
15. January 2008
As the BSD projects (DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD) have grown in size, a number of persistent myths have grown up around them. Some of these are perpetuated by well meaning but misguided individuals, others by people pursuing their own agendas. This page aims to dispel those myths while remaining as dispassionate as possible. *BSD has a [...]
Continue reading...Differentiating Among BSD flavours
26. May 2007
This website deals mostly with FreeBSD and systems derived from or based on this superb operating system. However it’s also good to be aware of other BSD systems that are around and the reason why they exist or why have been developed: OpenBSD (secure by default – the world’s most secure OS), NetBSD (runs on [...]
Continue reading...Unix and BSD Family Trees
24. May 2007
Recently I came across two interesting websites that show an up-to-date family tree of Unix and BSD operating systems, and thought that those of you who are not too familiar with the different Unix and Unix-like systems might find these pages interesting. UNIX history The BSD Family Tree
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