Not to be confused with BSD/386, the commercial Unix sold by BSDi.
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386BSD
386BSD Release 0.1 installer ("Tiny 386BSD")
Developer
William Jolitz Lynne Jolitz
OS family
Unix
Working state
Historical
Source model
Open source
Initial release
0.0[1] March 12, 1992; 32 years ago (1992-03-12)
Latest release
2.0 / August 2016; 7 years ago (2016-08)
Repository
github.com/386bsd/386bsd
Platforms
x86
License
BSD license
Succeeded by
FreeBSD, NetBSD
Official website
386bsd.org
386BSD (also known as "Jolix"[2]) is a discontinued operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) that was developed by couple Lynne and William Jolitz.[3] Released on March 17, 1992, it was the first fully operational Unix operating system to be completely free and open source.[4]
386BSD ran on PC-compatible computer systems based on the 32-bit Intel 80386 ("i386") microprocessor, thus marking the first Unix on affordable home-class hardware.[5] Its innovations included role-based security, ring buffers, self-ordered configuration and modular kernel design. Although 386BSD was short-lived, it served as the base for FreeBSD and NetBSD which began shortly afterwards.
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386BSD (also known as "Jolix") is a discontinued operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) that was developed by couple Lynne...
It was the first open-source BSD descendant officially released after 386BSD was forked. It continues to be actively developed and is available for many...
architecture: the free 386BSD by William Jolitz and the proprietary BSD/386 (later renamed BSD/OS) by Berkeley Software Design (BSDi). 386BSD itself was short-lived...
all derived from 386BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite, by various routes. Both NetBSD and FreeBSD started life in 1993, initially derived from 386BSD, but in 1994 migrated...
the free 386BSD by William and Lynne Jolitz, and the proprietary BSD/386 (later renamed BSD/OS) by Berkeley Software Design (BSDi). 386BSD itself was...
best known for developing the 386BSD operating system from 1989 to 1994 along with his wife Lynne Jolitz. Before 386BSD, Bill Jolitz designed the Symmetric...
felt frustrated at the poor quality of 386BSD and believed an open development model would be better. 386BSD was derived from the original University...
for Mach Operating System was written by Robert Baron. It was ported to 386BSD by Julian Elischer, and the implementation is being used by FreeBSD, NetBSD...
(BSD). The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993 developed from 386BSD and the current version runs on x86, ARM, PowerPC and RISC-V processors...
not released until 1992, due to legal complications, the development of 386BSD, from which NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD descended, predated that of Linux...
Slackware Linux, Arch Linux and Gentoo. A free derivative of BSD Unix, 386BSD, was released in 1992 and led to the NetBSD and FreeBSD projects. With the...
startups in Silicon Valley. Together with her husband William, she created 386BSD, the first open-source Unix-based operating system for personal computers...
When free and open-source Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and 386BSD became available in the early 1990s, many volunteer software developers...
attention of volunteer programmers. FreeBSD and NetBSD (both derived from 386BSD) were released as free software when the USL v. BSDi lawsuit was settled...
was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed. Noted for its portability and quality...
release, Lites provided binary compatibility with 4.4BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, 386BSD, UX (4.3BSD), and Linux. Lites was originally written by Johannes Helander...
founded SpringSource Stephen C. Johnson – yacc Lynne Jolitz – 386BSD William Jolitz – 386BSD Bill Joy – BSD, csh, vi, cofounded Sun Microsystems Robert K...
operating system, the Berkeley Software Distribution (in particular 4.3 BSD and 386BSD) and AT&T's UNIX System V (particularly SVR4). The book covers system calls...
internal needs. FreeBSD, started as a patchkit to 386BSD. NetBSD, started as a patchkit to 386BSD. Apache HTTP Server, from the moribund NCSA HTTPd....
operating systems such as Windows NT and Unix (NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, 386BSD, etc.), the microprocessor is operated in a different security ring, and...
Paging is used extensively by modern multitasking operating systems. Linux, 386BSD and Windows NT were developed for the 386 because it was the first Intel...
Torvalds' starting his project. He has stated that if either the GNU Hurd or 386BSD kernels had been available at the time, he likely would not have written...
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