Welcome to bsdnotlinux.org!
The purpose of this website is to provide links regarding BSD and BSD-related websites. For more information on what is BSD, Greg Lehey has written an article, Explaining BSD, that provides an overview of BSD and how it relates to Linux.
Also, feel free to visit my personal website and blog at closedsrc.org.
Note: I have compiled the list of companies and their respective product and services and provide them on this page as a public service for those who are interested in BSD. I do not receive any kick-backs, incentives or compensation for listing them here. Each of the groupings are sorted in alphabetical order and it does not or should not be interpreted to convey preference of one company, product or service over another.
Table of Contents
- BSD Projects and Operating Systems
- BSD Success Stories
- Commercial UNIX Operating Systems Influenced by BSD
- BSD Community and BSD-related Sites
- Books on BSD
- BSD or BSD-based Vendors, Service and Solution Providers
- Hosting Providers Offering BSD-based Solutions
- Software Available for BSD
- Websites Hosted on BSD
- Organizations and Companies using BSD
BSD Projects and Operating Systems
- BSD/OS
- ClosedBSD Project
- Darwin / OpenDarwin
- DragonFly BSD Project
- Eclipse/BSD
- FreeBSD Project
- FreeNAS
- FreeSBIE - FreeBSD LiveCD
- MirBSD Project
- m0n0wall (firewall package based on FreeBSD)
- NetBSD Project
- OpenBSD Project
- OpenIDS (IDS package based on OpenBSD)
- TrustedBSD
- WarBSD
- WifiBSD
BSD Success Stories
This section will continue to be updated as additional BSD success stories become published and/or available.
- O'Reilly BSD Success Stories Flyer [PDF: 480K] by Dru Lavigne
Commercial UNIX Operating Systems Influenced by BSD
For more information on the influence of BSD in the list of operating systems below, check out Éric Lévénez's UNIX History page and timeline. The amount of BSD influence in the operating systems listed will vary from a little bit to a considerable amount.
- Apple Mac OS X
- HP HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX (formerly known as Digital UNIX)
- IBM AIX
- SGI IRIX
- Snap Appliance SnapOS (based on FreeBSD)
- Sun Microsystems Solaris (which came from SunOS, which was heavy based on BSD)
Per the "AT&T/USL vs. BSDI" court case, System V UNIX had taken quite a few source code files from BSD and removed the BSD License and copyright terms. Dennis M. Ritchie has compiled some files regarding the case on his website. This means that many other UNIX operating systems derived from System V may also contain elements from BSD. Eric S. Raymond, of the Open Source Initiative, has documented this little tidbit in his "OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint".
BSD Community and BSD-related Sites
- BSDForums.org
- bsdtalk
- BSDVault
- Dæmon News
- FreeBSD Diary
- FreeBSDSearch.com
- FreshPorts
- Google Search - BSD
- ONLamp.com: BSD DevCenter
- OpenBSD Journal
- SoloBSD (en Español)
- UnixPower
Books on BSD
- Absolute BSD by Michael Lucas
- Absolute OpenBSD by Michael Lucas
- BSD Hacks by Dru Lavigne
- The Complete FreeBSD, Fourth Edition by Greg Lehey
- The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System by Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels and John S. Quarterman
- The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System by Marshall Kirk McKusick and George Neville-Neil
- The DOSSIER Collection by Prime Time Freeware
- Embedded FreeBSD Cookbook by Paul Cevoli
- Essential System Administration by Æleen Frisch
- Essential System Administration Pocket Reference by Æleen Frisch
- FreeBSD: An Open Source Operating System For Your PC by Annelise Anderson
- FreeBSD: The Complete Reference by Roderick Smith
- The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide by Ted Mittelstaedt
- FreeBSD Handbook by the FreeBSD Documentation Project
- FreeBSD Unleashed by Brian Tiemann and Michael Urban
- Secure Architectures with OpenBSD by Brandon Palmer and Jose Nazario
- Teach Yourself FreeBSD in 24 Hours by Michael Urban (and Brian Tiemann?)
- UNIX System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass and Trent R. Hein
BSD or BSD-based Vendors, Service and Solution Providers
- Arbor Networks (Peakflow appliances run on ArbOS, which is based on OpenBSD) - Source [PDF]
- BSD Central
- BSD Certification Group
- BSDMall (Affiliate Link)
- Coyote Point Systems - Load Balancers
- eRacks - BSD
- FIA POPnetserver (the POPfiler operating system is based on BSD)
- FreeBSD Mall
- FreeBSD Systems
- Iron Systems
- Juniper Networks ("JUNOS Origins in FreeBSD" - Source [PDF])
- Net Express
- NetScaler
- Offmyserver (formerly iXsystems)
- Puget Sound Techonology
- Seclarity SiNic
- ShopIP
- Snap Appliance Snap Servers running SnapOS (including the Snap Server 1100, Snap Server 2200 and the Snap Server 4100)
- Wasabi Systems
Hosting Providers Offering BSD-based Solutions
- Affinity Internet
- Cee-Kay Hosting
- Chime Interactive (their hosting service runs on FreeBSD)
- eDataRack
- HostBaby
- InetU
- Interland Virtual Private Servers
- iPowerWeb
- JohnCompanies.com
- New York Internet
- pair Networks
- Rackspace
- Secure Dog Hosting
- ServPath
- SkyNetWEB
- Tek Alchemy
- TierraNet
- Verio Virtual and Managed Private Servers Hosting Services
- viaVerio.com
- XS4ALL Dedicated Hosting
- Yahoo! Web Hosting
Software Available for BSD
There are thousands of applications, tools and utilities that can run on BSD or BSD-based operating systems. The following list are examples of commercial and Open Source applications that have been ported to BSD.
- Apache Web Server
- BitDefender for Mail Servers
- Code Forge IDE
- Core Systems InSite
- Eclipse SDK and IDE
- GNOME Desktop
- Java
Note: Java 1.3.1 JDK and JRE packages for FreeBSD are available from the FreeBSD Foundation - Java webpage. - Journyx Timesheet
- KDE
- Miva Empresa
- Mozilla
- MySQL
- NetBeans IDE
- OpenOffice.org
- Perl
- PHP
- Plesk Server Administrator
- Positive Software H-Sphere
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- Samba
- SpamAssassin
- X.Org X Window System
- XFree86 X Window System
- Yosemite TapeWare 7.x
- Zend Technologies
- Zeus Technology
Websites Hosted on BSD
The following websites are running on a BSD or BSD-based operating system, based on results obtained from Netcraft's website. I try to check each site now and then, but things do change.
- About.com
- Adhost
- Atomz
- AvantGo
- CD Baby
- Guster band website
- MiniDisc Community Portal (US Mirror)
- Nauticus Networks
- NetCraft
- Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB)
- Positive Software
- PostgreSQL (some mirrors run on Linux)
- Saab Automobile
- Yahoo!
- XFree86 Project
Organizations and Companies using BSD
Each of the major BSD projects maintain lists of organizations and companies that use the respective BSD operating systems. Below are links to those pages.
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