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The '''BSD''' or Berkeley Software Distribution family of operating systems are derivatives of [[Unix]] that were once developed at the Computer Science Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley during the 70s, 80s, and 90s, building atop the UNIX v6 and UNIX 32/V releases from Bell Labs. In the late 80s and early 90s the CSRG worked on replacing encumbered AT&T code with their own and released Net/2. The release by BSDI of BSD/386 led to a lawsuit from AT&T as they claimed that Net/2 still contained AT&T code but was sold to those without AT&T licences. Out of the settlement of the lawsuit came the CSRG's last release, 4.4BSD-Lite, from which modern BSD systems are based upon (along with 386BSD).
 
As a result of the permissive and simple BSD Licence (see [[Licenses]]), the BSDs frequently see their work incorporated in other systems. For example, [[Windows]] NT 3.1 used the Berkeley TCP/IP stack, and Juniper Networks hardware uses a derivative of BSD called JunOS. BSD was where the vi editor was first developed and released.
 
There are many BSD operating systems in use today:
* [[FreeBSD]], built for general purpose use, found for example in the PlayStation 4.
* [[OpenBSD]], acclaimed for it's security principles and outspoken head developer Theo de Raadt.
* NetBSD, built for high portability to as many platforms and architectures as possible.
* [[DragonflyBSD]], a fork of FreeBSD that introduces a new multiprocessing paradigm and the HAMMER file system while being suitable for desktop use and attempting to revive the spirit of AmigaOS for the 21st century.
* TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD), a derivative of FreeBSD that is designed as a friendly and easy to use desktop operating system based on KDE.
* MidnightBSD, another fork of FreeBSD that uses the Etoile/GNUstep environment that is similar to NeXTSTEP.
* GhostBSD, yet another fork of FreeBSD, combined with MATE desktop environment and a focus on user-friendliness.
* [[OS X]] (more specifically Darwin), the proprietary operating system from [[Apple]] used on Macintosh computers that has a distant relationship to FreeBSD.
 
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