Berkeley Software Distribution

The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) is a Unix operating system developed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, using the licensed source-code of AT&T's Research Unix. Research Unix is also the basis of AT&T's commercially released operating systems UNIX System III (1981) and UNIX System V (1983). The Berkeley Software Distribution is also known as Berkeley Unix or BSD Unix. Quotes about BSD The Unix operating system was invented in the early 1970s at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. In the late ’70s, Unix zealots from Bell Labs visited the Berkeley campus, and a new, richer version of Unix was developed. Along with hot tubs, leftist politics, and the free speech movement, Berkeley is known for its Unix implementation.A schism developed between advocates of the small, compact AT&T Unix and the more elaborate Berkeley implementation. Despite conferences, standards, and promises, no consensus has appeared, and the world is left with two competing Unix operating systems.Of course, our lab used Berkeley Unix, as do all right-thinking folks. East Coast people were said to be biased towards AT&T Unix, but then, they hadn’t discovered hot tubs either. Stoll Clifford w:Clifford Stoll The Cuckoo's Egg 1989 Chapter 7 Doubleday With the commercialization of Unix, the researchers at Bell Laboratories were no longer able to act as a clearing-house for the ongoing Unix research. As the research community continued to modify the Unix system, it found that it needed an organization that could produce research releases. Because of its early involvement in Unix and its history of releasing Unix-based tools, Berkeley quickly stepped into the role previously provided by the Labs. McKusick Marshall Kirk w:Marshall Kirk McKusick Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable O'Reilly & Associates DiBona Chris w:Chris DiBona Ockman Sam Stone Mark January 1999 https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html 1-56592-582-3 See also FreeBSD Linux NetBSD Unix External links Category:Free software