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Revision as of 22:36, 11 April 2006 by RenamedUser2 (talk | contribs) (→See Also: - fixed broken links)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)There are a number of BSD Operating Systems, the most notable being FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD. They are descended, directly or indirectly, from 4.4BSD-Lite. Most of them are available under the BSD License, a notable exception being Mac OS X.
Names, Logos, and Slogans
The names of FreeBSD and OpenBSD refer to the fact that they are free, as in you don't have to pay to download them, and open source. The name of NetBSD is a tribute to the internet, which brought the developers together.
The original BSD mascot is the BSD daemon, named after a type of software common in unix-like operating systems, which FreeBSD still retains. The NetBSD flag is based on a World War II photograph, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. The OpenBSD mascot, Puffy, is said to be a pufferfish, but looks more like a porcupinefish. It is a reference to the puffer/blow/porcupinefish's strong defensive capabilities, and possibly also to the blowfish cryptography algorithm.
Table
| Creator | First public release | Predecessor | Latest stable version (release date) | Cost (USD) | Preferred licenseTemplate:Fn | Target system type | |
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| FreeBSD | The FreeBSD Project | December 1993 | 386BSD | 6.0 (November 3, 2005) | Free | BSD | Server, Workstation, Network Appliance |
| OpenBSD | The OpenBSD Project | October 1995 | NetBSD 1.0 | 3.8 (November 1, 2005) | Free | BSD | Server, Network Appliance, Workstation, Embedded |
| NetBSD | The NetBSD Project | May 1993 | 386BSD | 3.0 (December 23, 2005) | Free | BSD | Network Appliance, Server, Workstation, Embedded |
| Mac OS X | Apple Computer | March 2001 | NeXTSTEP, Mac OS | 10.4.6 "Tiger" (April 3, 2006) | $129 | Proprietary, parts APSL, GPL, others. | Workstation, Home Desktop, Server |
| DragonFlyBSD | Matt Dillon | July 12, 2004 | FreeBSD 4.8 | 1.4 (January 7, 2006) | Free | BSD | |
| PicoBSD | FreeBSD | Free | boot floppy | ||||
| Anonym.OS | beta as of January 2005 | OpenBSD 3.8 | none | Free | LiveCD, anonymous browsing | ||
| MirOS BSD | The MirOS Project | OpenBSD 3.1 | #8 (December 24, 2005) | Free | European | ||
| ekkoBSD | OpenBSD 3.3 | Server | |||||
| MicroBSD | OpenBSD 3.0 | ||||||
| Creator | First public release | Predecessor | Latest stable version (release date) | Cost (USD) | Preferred licenseTemplate:Fn | Target system type |
See Also
| Unix and Unix-like operating systems and compatibility layers | |||||||||
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