Berkeley Software Distribution
Berkeley Software Distribution is a derivative of Unix that was created by and is distributed by the University of California, Berkeley, whose first official release was in 1977[1]. Other derivatives of the original BSD Unix such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD are also collectively known as "the BSDs."
History
In the mid 1970s the Berkeley campus of the University of California became a hotbed of activity in the budding world of Unix operating system development. When one of the original creators of Unix (Ken Thompson) taught there during a sabbatical in 1975-1976[1] this also encouraged students at the University to hack away on a brand-new, revolutionary OS (operating system).
In 1977 the first Berkeley UNIX version was released, from a lab run by a grad student named Bill Joy (who would subsequently become one of the 'big names' in Unix and Computer history in general when he co-founded Sun Micrososystems).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995" (retreived 07-April-2007).