386BSD

386BSD (also JOLIX ) is a free Unix-like operating system by Bill and Lynne Jolitz and was the first free system from the BSD family. In addition, 386BSD was the basis for FreeBSD and NetBSD.

History

The beginnings of 386BSD go back to 1989 as a port of 4.3BSD or 4.3BSD NET / 2 386 on the Intel. It had some extensions that made ​​it possible in the eyes of the authors to use it without AT & T UNIX source license, and was the first free BSD system. In 1991, Bill Jolitz worked for the Berkeley Software Design, Inc. ( BSDI ), which also 4.3BSD Net / 2 ported to x86. This gave rise to 1991-1992, the operating system BSD/386, the predecessor of BSD / OS. However, this had little in common with 386BSD since Jolitz his work for BSDi destroyed before he left the group.

The first official versions 386BSD 0.0 and 386BSD 0.1 were released in March and July 1992. Although the system great popularity enjoyed, however, it was limited at this time useful. Therefore, a patch collection developed (called a patch kit ), which eliminated errors and the system expanded. The latest version of Patchkits was version 0.2.4 in June 1993. Between versions 0.0 and 0.1, the patches have not been incorporated into the system. However, since the patches were incorporated only very slowly or not at all more in new versions of 386BSD after version 0.1, formed in 1993 by 386BSD finally FreeBSD and NetBSD.

In the wake of the copyright dispute between BSDi and Novell also parts of 386BSD were classified as charged in the same year. In contrast to FreeBSD and NetBSD, it was never converted to 4.4BSD- Lite and 386BSD the distributions as a precaution from the FTP servers.

The finished version of 386BSD 1.0 was released in November 1994 as 386BSD Reference CD -ROM of Dr. Dobb 's Journal, but never offered as a download version. At this time, however, there were already more advanced versions of NetBSD and FreeBSD, so that the interest in 386BSD declined. Also of Dr. Dobb 's Journal update was finally released in 1995 on the last public version of 386BSD 2.0 in the form of an update disk.

Versions

  • March 1992: 386BSD 0.0
  • July 1992: 386BSD 0.1
  • June 1993: 386BSD 0.2.4
  • November 1994: 386BSD 1.0 - 386BSD Reference CD -ROM
  • 1995: 386BSD 2.0
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