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BSD a better OS than Linux?
News An open-source operating system like Linux, BSD was developed in the 1970s at the University of California-Berkeley, well before Linus Torvalds ever took a computer course. In late 1991 there were 100 programmers on UseNet producing improvements...
[July 22, 1999, 16:49]
Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package: Freescale MPC8349E-mITX - Quick Reference
White Papers Wasabi Certified BSD (WCB) is a full-featured, modern operating system that extends open-source NetBSD with improved compiler technology, more capable device drivers, and thorough platform testing. Freescale designed the MPC8349E-mITX reference...
[March 12, 2008, 0:01]
Implementing Lightweight Routing for BSD TCP/IP
White Papers This paper presents a lightweight leaf node routing algorithm and implementation for the BSD networking stack and discuss why the new approach was difficult to implement. By removing routing functionality not required for embedded devices, the size...
[May 8, 2007, 1:00]
Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package: Freescale MPC8349EMDS - Quick Reference
White Papers Wasabi Certified BSD (WCB) is a full-featured, modern operating system that extends open-source NetBSD with improved compiler technology, more capable device drivers, and thorough platform testing. The Freescale MPC8349E processors are designed to...
[March 12, 2008, 0:01]
Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package: Marvell Orion - Quick Reference
White Papers Wasabi Certified BSD (WCB) is a full-featured, modern operating system that extends open-source NetBSD with improved compiler technology, more capable device drivers, and thorough platform testing. The Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package...
[March 12, 2008, 0:01]
Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package: Freescale MPC8548E CDS - Quick Reference
White Papers Wasabi Certified BSD (WCB) is a full-featured, modern operating system that extends open-source NetBSD with improved compiler technology, more capable device drivers, and thorough platform testing. The Freescale MPC8548E PowerQUICC III...
[March 12, 2008, 0:01]
Security, Stability, and Ease of Use Make PC-BSD Deployment in Poulx School District a Success
White Papers PC-BSD is a fully functional desktop operating system running FreeBSD 6 under the hood. The Poulx School District did not have a need to run highly specialized applications. What they required was an operating system that is stable, reliable, and...
[April 2, 2009, 2:47]
Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package: Intel IXP425 - Quick Reference
White Papers Wasabi Certified BSD (WCB) is a full-featured, modern operating system that extends open-source NetBSD with improved compiler technology, more capable device drivers, and thorough platform testing. The Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package...
[March 12, 2008, 0:01]
Flaws found in BSD, Linux software updaters
News The software update mechanisms used by most BSD and Linux operating systems can be tricked into installing buggy or known-to-be-compromised software on users' systems, creating serious security risks, according to new research.
[July 14, 2008, 17:08]
Wind River acquires BSD's Unix
News BSDi is the owner of the BSD/OS, the version of Unix at the heart of open-source projects such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. This restriction does not exist in the BSD movement. Of the 100 or remaining BSDi employees, about 50 will continue on...
[April 5, 2001, 8:23]
BSD bug found and fixed after 25 years
News BSD's variants include OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD, and it forms the basis of Apple's Mac OS X operating system. All BSD derivatives were found to contain the bug, according to Marc Balmer, a Swiss developer closely involved with OpenBSD.
[May 12, 2008, 15:32]
Wasabi Certified BSD
White Papers Wasabi Certified BSD (WCB) is a certified, tested, and optimized version of the NetBSD operating system, offering the rich functionality of BSD Unix without Linux's troublesome GPL License and with the security of professional certification...
[March 12, 2008, 0:01]
Nice one, Debian
Blog Comment I can't say I can see how the BSD kernels would be immune to the majority of Microsoft's software idea patent attacks. The older parts of the BSD kernel, perhaps. But newer portions may fall within the same patent risk minefield that all other non...
[April 8, 2009, 7:14]
Duh ..
Talkback Yes the GPL is a diff lic than the BSD, however in all past times GPL 'ed software has been more ubiquitous just because the user who wants to use (and distribute) has to be open about that to the world and return his changes/additions.which most...
[September 3, 2007, 12:37]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
Talkback One thing that I believe is missing from this article is a list of all companies that adopt the code from BSD, change it a little so other people can not interact with it, and then lock it up, so the can keep their monopolies or ability to...
[March 25, 2006, 17:28]
Why Microsoft code leak worries me
Talkback Something in your story doesn't quite tally: Unix/Linux/BSD are obviously a lot safer than the various Versions of Windows. BSD were built with multy-user functionality as a prime objective, inclusive of all required security issues addressed...
[February 27, 2004, 18:58]
Zeus Technology, Blue State Digital and the Barack Obama Phenomenon
White Papers Blue State Digital (BSD) is a leader in online fundraising, advocacy, social networking and constituency development programs for nonprofit organizations, political candidates and causes. Because political campaigns are extremely intense, highly...
[April 30, 2009, 1:19]
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
Talkback The Open BSD project is focused on fixing bugs and securing code. Right from the start of the Open BSD project, the project spent a couple years doing a ground up source code audit to find and fix quality/security issues.
[June 19, 2005, 10:32]
The Gates of Perception
Talkback We already know that Bill doesn't have a problem with Open Source .he's got enough ex-BSD code in Windows to prove this. With BSD you are not required to reciprocate, with GPL you are. We know that he doesn't like the GPL.
[July 5, 2005, 12:04]
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
Talkback It is sad that we see persons from the BSD community openly attacking Linux when just last week Linus Torvalds in an interview went out of his way to avoid making a single negative remark about the open-source BSD's.http://os.newsforge.com/article...
[June 20, 2005, 15:41]
