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unusual facts about *BSD


PC-BSD

In November 2007, iXsystems entered into a distribution agreement with Fry's Electronics whereby Fry's Electronics stores nationwide carry boxed copies of PC-BSD version 1.4 (Da Vinci Edition).


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AltGr key

In the X Window System (GNU/Linux, BSD, Unix), AltGr can often be used to produce additional characters with almost every key on the keyboard.

Architecture of OS X

At the same conference, Apple announced that the Mach side of the kernel had been updated with sources from version 3 of the Mach kernel and the BSD side of the kernel had been updated with sources from the FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD projects.

Border Gateway Protocol

XORP, the eXtensible Open Router Platform, a BSD licensed suite of routing protocols.

BSD Daemon

The BSD daemon was first drawn in 1976 by comic artist Phil Foglio.

The later, more popular versions of the BSD daemon were drawn by animation director John Lasseter beginning with an early greyscale drawing on the cover of the Unix System Manager's Manual published in 1984 by USENIX for 4.2BSD.

The copyright of the official BSD daemon images is held by Marshall Kirk McKusick (a very early BSD developer who worked with Bill Joy).

Bzip2

Probably useful for research and prototyping, made available under the BSD/GPL/LGPL, or any other DFSG-compatible license.

Dru Lavigne

She has been using FreeBSD since 1996, has authored several BSD books, and spent over 10 years developing training materials and providing training on the administration of FreeBSD systems.

Elliptic curve

The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (BSD) is one of the Millennium problems of the Clay Mathematics Institute.

ESET

In addition to Microsoft Windows, the company also supports the following operating systems: BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Novell NetWare and Sun Solaris.

FFS2

FFS2, Unix File System, Berkeley Fast File System, the BSD Fast File System or FFS

High-speed multimedia radio

This method is supported by all modern operating systems including but not limited to Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, and Linux.

Jimmy Cavallo

The A side of BSD 1004 was "Ha Ha Ha Blues," which was Jimmy's reworking of a Joe Morris tune, also from 1951, called "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!"

Kernel-based Virtual Machine

A wide variety of guest operating systems work with KVM, including many flavours of Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Haiku, ReactOS, Plan 9, and AROS Research Operating System.

Michael J. Karels

BSDi software asset was bought by Wind River in April 2001, and Mike joined Wind River as the Principal Technologist for the BSD/OS platform.

Michael Larabel

Larabel is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite - an open-source benchmarking software package for Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD, and Windows operating systems - and related software such as Phoromatic and PTS Desktop Live.

Microwave ablation

The systems use either a 915 MHz generator (Evident, Covidien, Mansfield, MA; MicrothermX, BSD Medical, Salt Lake City, UT; Avecure, Medwaves, San Diego, CA) or a 2450 MHz generator (Certus 140, Neuwave, Madison, WI; Amica, Hospital Service, Rome, Italy; Acculis MTA, Microsulis, Hampshire, England).

Mike Muuss

Due to its usefulness, ping has been implemented on a large number of operating systems, initially BSD Unix, but later others including Windows and Mac OS X.

Mikel King

In the October 2009 issue he produced two articles and one collaborative piece with Dru Lavigne current President of the BSD Certification Group.

Page fault

Contrary to what the name 'page fault' might suggest, page faults are not always errors and are common and necessary to increase the amount of memory available to programs in any operating system that utilizes virtual memory, including Microsoft Windows, Unix-like systems (including Mac OS X, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX), and z/OS.

Scott Seebass

Mr. Seebass went on to work at Interactive Systems and MT Xinu, where he focused on developing MORE/bsd, a commercial version of Unix.

Ultrix

While the converged Unix from the Sun and AT&T alliance (that spawned the Open Software Foundation or OSF), released late 1986, put BSD features into System V, DEC, as described in Stettner's original Ultrix plans, took the best from System V and added it to a BSD base.

USB mass storage device class

However, a keydrive or any other device may be formatted using another filesystem (for example HFS Plus on an Apple Macintosh, or Ext2 under Linux, or Unix File System under Solaris or BSD).


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