BSD History Y2K
The BSD mascot is inspired by a wonderful cartoon drawing by Phil Foglio.
The BSD unixes's mascot is a tykish red daemon, with a trident and a 1980s Converse All-Stars basketball sneaker. BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution, developed by studs from the hippy intelligentsia University of California, Berkeley. The second and third images are BSD shirts printed before 1990s. Notice the DOS balloon and the AT&T deathstar. From these, we know that once BSD were in competition with MS-DOS (MicroSoft Disk Operating System) and the trademarked Unix then owned by AT&T. These images are from the BSD daemon history page http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html (link defunct as of 2007-09) .
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Art author's site:
http://www.aracnet.com/~flee/ascii-art.html
〔see UNIX Philosophy, Fast Food the UNIX way〕
I have not admined BSDs. Reportedly, BSD is technically superior to Linuxes. Like most Open Source projects, there are 3 major factions of BSD:
- freebsd.org
- openbsd.org
- netbsd.org
FreeBSD is the most popular, and focus on common PC hardwares, i.e. Intel. NetBSD focuses on portability on all types of hardwares. OpenBSD is famous for its extra concern on "security". (the entire "security" problems in today's computing industry is a egregious insult to how things should be. Security problems are in fact created and fermented by the unix community. If unix did not exist, the computing world would harbor a lot less of hackers.)
FreeBSD docs page is at: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html
