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BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group CSRG of the University of California at Berkeley. CSRG helped develop the TCP/IP protocols for...; Full BSD Definition >>

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SCO story ends with a whimper: William Shakespear should have expanded on his "first ... the lawyers" bit!It is hard to feel sorry for people who go crying all the way to the bank!BAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!Good riddance.Someone remind meThis turned out exactly how Bitty/No Ax predicted, right?: o )SCO Xenix & UnixRather sad that their expertise at delivering...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, SCO Group Inc., BSD, Linux, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2009-10-19
Microsoft and European researchers deliver a snapshot of multikernel 'Barrelfish' OS: Do you see the flaw in your statement?Microsoft?s Windows Embedded CE operating system runs on ARM but no variants of Windows do at least for now.Ummm, Windows Embedded is a variant of Windows. ;-)by "Windows", i think she meant..NT. "Embedded Windows CE" is the one that runs on ARM,...; Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, PDAs, Microsoft Corp., ARM, Microsoft Windows CE, Microsoft Windows, Embedded Windows, Intel x86, operating system; Discussion threads 2009-09-25
Can open source police open source?: Can open source police open source?we need an international lawthat will allow the governments to go afer the GPL violators and use the proceeds to reimburse the authors.*sigh*There's plenty of people who are "here today, gone tomorrow" ripping off all sorts of code, be it open source or proprietary, not...; Tags: UNIX, GPL, open source, BSD; Discussion threads 2009-06-23
GPL's cloudy future: One of the things about getting older is that you learn to ignore things until you have to do something about them. It's a learned efficiency, I suppose, rationing your increasingly precious time out to the unceasing demands upon it. I finally realized I have to do some serious thinking...; Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Free Software Foundation, BSD, Free Software, Affero GPL, AGPL, Open Source, Jeremy Allison; Blog posts 2009-04-07
Debian gets FreeBSD kernel support: Debian gets FreeBSD kernel supportDebian on a FreeBSD kernelThis is good news. The BSD distributions have fallen so far behind the Linux distros in terms of ease-of-use and installation that I'll be happy to see what Debian brings to the table. I'll have to try out kFreeBSD this...; Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Debian, FreeBSD kernel, FreeBSD, kernel, BSD, Linux; Discussion threads 2009-04-06

Does it matter if Cisco is a leech?: Does it matter if Cisco is a leech?The GPL prohibits outright leeching ...For some time now Cisco has used Linux extensively. In most cases, as far as I am aware, they follow the rules. I don't recall any cases of significant abuse on their part. Any abuse...; Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, BSD, Cisco Systems Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-12-11
Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2): In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession,Â as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...; Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-10-14
Heredis 10.2.6 (Mac): Everything you may possibly need for handling your genealogy today, plus everything you are expecting for tomorrow...HEREDIS MAC X offers a variety of innovating tools. A navigating family tree in 3 dimensions allows an entire genealogy to be displayed on one screen only. This tree has been designed so that...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, BSD, Tree, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2008-09-08
The layered approach ... my wish for a future OS: The layered approach ... my wish for a future OSSounds a lot like BSD to me....BSD (and therefore Mac OS/X) has much the same structure as the one you describe. Indeed this structure has some inherent advantages.However, in practice BSD doesn't have a stability or reliability advantage over Linux. Linux...; Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, OS Model, operating system, BSD; Discussion threads 2008-08-20
Did Apple forget to patch something?: Less than 24 hours after Apple belatedly released a patch for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, there are reports circulating that the DNS client on the OSX 10.4.11 distribution still has not been patched. According to nCircle's Andrew Storms, the client libraries on a fully patched OSX...; Tags: DNS, Domain, IP, Server, Apple Inc., BSD, Client Library, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-08-01
Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities: Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X security vulnerabilitiesAnother 25?Wow, how come people are finding so many holes in OS X? Has anything changed? There never used to be so many security vulnerabilities in OS X or could it simply be that they've [b]always[/b] been there and they've simply never been...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OSX, Apple Mac OS X, Mac OS X security vulnerability, Mac OS X security, BSD, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, vulnerability, Apple Macintosh, security; Discussion threads 2008-06-30
25-year-old BSD bug found--and fixed: 25-year-old BSD bug found--and fixedSteve is the evil twin...The good Balmer twin, Marc, is out there doing productive things for society! ;); Tags: UNIX, BSD; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up: What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...; Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-05-05
F-Prot Antivirus SDK: Add virus detection to the application on any platform, Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X. F-PROT works with any kind of application on most platforms. The award-winning F-PROT Antivirus Scanning Engine protects against viruses, worms, Trojans and other malware. Advanced heuristics detect new and unknown threats and...; Tags: FRISK Software, Antivirus, IBM AIX, Antivirus Software, BSD, F-Prot Antivirus SDK, F-PROT Antivirus Scanning Engine, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Apple Mac OS, Linux, Operating Systems, Viruses And Worms, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Security, Software; White papers 2008-04-23
Google rejects GPL in new gPhone alliance: Google rejects GPL in new gPhone allianceNot reallyUnlike the typical MS-license, the Apache license allows developers to do pretty much whatever they want with the source code, to include releasing derivatives under the GPL the two licenses are compatible.Sounds just like Microsoft "open source".;-)Their code, their licenseSounds fair enough to...; Tags: Mindshare, Google Inc., alliance member, GPL, gPhone alliance, new gPhone alliance, alliance, open source; Discussion threads 2007-11-06
Mixing GPL and BSD code just takes care: Mixing GPL and BSD code just takes careWho's stealing what?Before De Raadt compains about GPL boys "stealing" code, he better review his license. Don't proprietary companies "steal" BSD code when they make proprietary programs from BSD code? If that's allowed by the license, then why are the GPL people to...; Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, De Raadt, BSD Code, BSD, MADWiFi, Madwifi developer, OpenBSD, GPL; Discussion threads 2007-09-28
Mixing GPL and BSD code just takes care: The Software Freedom Law Center has released a set of guidelines for projects that need to mix BSD and GPL code. This follows a highly-publicized dispute over Atheros driver code for the Linux kernel, during which OpenBSD head Theo de Raadt and other OpenBSD leaders got, shall...; Tags: Developer, GPL, OpenBSD, BSD, Software Freedom Law Center, Raadt, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-09-28
Counting the roots of growth: BSD vs Linux vs Solaris: Counting the roots of growth: BSD vs Linux vs SolarisSecretive about the disaster.Quoting the quote:"Sun has been tight-lipped about what the conversion rate for Solaris shipments to Solaris paid support contracts is, but if the number was high, you can bet Sun would say something. That said, with nearly 9...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Linux, BSD, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-08-16
Counting the roots of growth: BSD vs Linux vs Solaris: I think we all know which of the three major Unix variants has the largest number of paid up licenses for non embedded use: it's the one we usually hear least about, the Darwin BSD variant used by Apple to host the MacOS X shell.There's equally little doubt about...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Paul Murphy, BSD, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, server; Blog posts 2007-08-16
WHurley spins BMC into open source: William Hurley, who goes by WHurley, has been an open source advocate and organizer for many years.When he left Qlusters recently for BMC Software, the Houston-based company which began with accounting software and grew like a snip ofÂ oilpatch, Â I wondered how far he could spin that company toward open source.The...; Tags: Strategy, management, Enterprise Policy, business models, BSD, Applications; Blog posts 2007-07-27