Explaining BSD
by
Bryan Hinton
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last modified
Feb 28, 2008 08:40 PM
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Computing
In the open source world, the word “Linux” is almost synonymous with “Operating System”, but it is not the only open source UNIX® operating system. BSD stands for “Berkeley Software Distribution”. It is the name of distributions of source code from the University of California, Berkeley, which were originally extensions to AT&T's Research UNIX operating system.
