The Making of BSD: The ACTUAL World’s First Open-Source Operating System?

BSD, the operating system many claim to be the actual world’s first open source operating system. Initially called Berkeley Unix, as it was based on the source code of the original Unix developed at Bell Labs, BSD, or Berkeley Software Distribution, is a now discontinued operating system developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley by a team led by Bill Joy in the 1970s. 🖥️ Dev Notes Newsletter: And to understand BSD, you must understand these early days of Unix. In that, although it was proprietary, the earliest distributions of Unix included the source code, allowing researchers at universities to modify and extend Unix. The operating system arrived at Berkeley in 1974, at the request of computer science professor Bob Fabry, a Symposium on Operating Systems Principles committee member, where Unix was first presented. BSD came to life as a variant of Unix in the late 1970s by a team of programmers at UC Berkeley. At first, BSD was not a clone of Unix, or even a substantially different version of it. It just included some extra features, which were intertwined with code owned by AT&T... 🖥️ Dev Notes Newsletter: I hope you enjoyed it! If I could ask a favor from those who are reading this, share it with your friends. The more I know y’all like it, the more inclined I am to make more episodes in the series. Also comment what software, or even hardware or other historical technologies you’d like to see in this series. I appreciate you all for the never-ending support! Until next time. Episode 1 - The Making of Linux: The World’s First Open Source Operating System: Episode 2 - The Making of GNU: The World’s First Open-Source Software: 0:00 Berkeley Unix (BSD) 0:26 The 1970s 1:01 Unix Source Code 1:49 Unix at Berkeley Births BSD 2:14 Ken Thompson from AT&T Bell Labs 2:36 Bill Joy Compiles 1BSD 2:56 2BSD Releases with vi and csh 3:37 Özalp Babaoğlu Rewrites the Kernel of UNIX/32V - 3BSD 4:22 and Power 6/32 by CCI - Tahoe 5:46 AT&T Unix Source Code License 6:08 Removing Unix from BSD - Net/1 6:36 BSD Developer Keith Bostic - Net/2 7:14 386BSD by Jolitz & BSD/386(OS) by BSDi 7:54 USL v. BSDi Halted BSD Development 9:07 BSD Development Ends - Lite 9:26 The BSD Legacy Lives On! 10:15 BSD’s Impact on the Software Industry 10:40 BSD or Linux 11:56 That’s the Story of BSD ------------------------ 🖥️ Dev Notes Newsletter: 📓 Studious, Notion Template for Students: 🐱‍🚀 GitHub: 🐦 Twitter: 💼 LinkedIn: 📸 Instagram: 📓 Learning Resources: My Favorite Machine Learning Course: Open Source Computer Science Degree: Python Open Source Computer Science Degree: Udacity to Learn Any Coding Skill: 👨‍💻 My Coding Gear: My NAS Server: My Hard Drives: My Main Monitor: My Second Monitor: My Standing Desk: My PC Build: My AI GPU:
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