Overview of the BSDs

zeekiorage writes "A good informative article about the various BSD OSs, their legacy, philosophy and importance on the ExtremeTech web site. Excerpt from the article: 'Nowadays, the term 'The BSDs' refers to the family of operating systems which were derived, to a greater or lesser extent, from BSD. The five best known BSDs are FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, and Darwin (which serves as the foundation for Apple's MacOS X). But virtually all modern operating systems -- from Windows to BeOS to Linux -- rely on crucial BSD code to run.'"

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Re:*BSDs are DYING

[Melantha_Bacchae]

An AC wrote:

> It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dy[chomp!]

[Munch! Slurp!] Help! [Crunch! Slurp! Burp!]

Sorry, folks, it looks like the famous "*BSD is Dying" troll is dead. Eaten by a Jaguar.

Move along, nothing to see here. He's a really neat eater. Please continue enjoying your BSD based OS.

Hey, Kitty. What say you and I go poke around the Microsoft campus and see if we can't scare up a nice juicy Longhorn for desert?

[Slurp!]

Good Kitty! ;)

(No actual humans were harmed in the posting of this message.)

Re:A bit of Linux bashing?

[LiquidPC]

3) "only one security hole that would allow an intruder to break in from the Internet has been discovered in the past 6 years" I'm just guessing, but I'd think this only includes software as part of the BSD operating system, and not third party contributing software... Hell, the Slapper worm is a port of a BSD worm over to the GNU/Linux system...

Since apache isn't part of BSD or Linux, then Slapper isn't a BSD worm, nor is it a Linux worm. It's an apache worm.

I know, but..

[Inoshiro]

The DNS was out when I posted it... I run the DNS servers for K5, so I was rather alarmed to find out about this. It's fixed now because I went and talked with some telco people about the situation.

But that's not really on the topic of this conversation :)