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BSD is still dying.
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Welcome to ""BSD is Still Dying.""
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It’s not quite dead yet,
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but we're getting there.
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Well, welcome to the closing of the DCBSDCon
2009.
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So, what is BSD?
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Well, BSD is a derivative of UNIX.
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Okay, so what is UNIX?
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UNIX is an operating system.
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What’s an operating system?
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An operating system is the soul of a computer.
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But, what’s a computer?
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A computer is a tool, it’s basically a glorified calculator
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that enables users to accomplish tasks better.
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So, what is a user?
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A user is someone who operates the computer.
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It tends to stand upright, sort of like me
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and Bob.
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So, who am I?
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My name is Jason Dixon.
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First and foremost, I’m a Sysadmin.
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I like to work on networks and firewalls.
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I like to tweak;
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no...
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yes.
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I'm a programmer, sort of.
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I enjoy programming with Perl, PostgreSQL,
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and Apache Web servers.
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I'm a consultant here.
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I'm an employee--
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damn, not there!
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Missed that slide, sorry, er, I'm sorry, OmniTI.
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You can tell I switch jobs entirely too often.
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And I'm a lover
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of BSD.
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Okay, but why am I here?
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To talk about why
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BSD is dying.
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Sex...
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and greed.
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Ok, it really has nothing to do with either of these.
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But if I told you licensing of blobs,
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would you have shown up? Not that you had a choice.
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To quickly summarize, what is BSD?
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What is UNIX?
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What is an operating system?
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What is a computer?
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A computer: A computer is a device that computes
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especially, a programmable electronic machine
that performs high speed mathematical
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or logical operations,
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or that assembles, stores, correlates, or otherwise processes
information.
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This is a computer.
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This is a small computer.
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This is a big computer
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This is a big,
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fake computer.
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And this is a really old computer.
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Well, what does a computer really do?
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It helps us write documents.
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For example, Linux man pages.
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We can compose shopping lists.
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Computers can even delete documents on the fly.
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We can write emails,
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surf the Web,
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watch movies, uhh...
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movies,
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listen to our favorite music,
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and even play games.
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But how does the computer let us do these things?
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It starts by taking text known as source code,
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and using the compiler can translate it into binary
machine language.
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That’s the foundation
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for the kernel,
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libraries,
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and userland applications, otherwise known as
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an operating system.
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Like, BSD. So you ask:
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What is a kernel?
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It's a wonderful thing.
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It allows for the management
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of processes, memory,
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and peripheral devices.
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And by extension, it allows us to do cool stuff like
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networking,
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provide better security,
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work with disks and file systems, create user interfaces,
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interact with userland applications that let us
do things like
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write documents, read email, surf the Web,
watch movies,
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listen to music,
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play games,
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and much, much more.
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In summary,
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BSD is a UNIX-derived operating system that enables
users to harness the power of
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a computer and process information better.
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It uses a kernel to manage processes, memory,
and peripheral devices, and by extension
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We can perform networking, enforce security,
read from and write to storage devices and interface visually to applications
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like text editors
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mail clients, Web browsers, multimedia players, and games.
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For a second, I'd like to look back
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on the history of UNIX for a few minutes.
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Now, to be honest,
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Kirk McKusick just trumped everything I had
from my talk.
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So, a lot of this is gonna be a repeat,
but it's still pretty good.
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So, in the beginning,
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and yes, there was life before UNIX.
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We had the Holy Trinity:
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MIT, Bell Labs and GE teamed to create
a system called Multics,
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the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service.
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We have a huge GE650 mainframe running Multics.
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You can tell the engineers from the pointy-haired bosses.
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And so, it was a huge success.
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We all run Multics on a laptop, mainframes, of course.
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Actually, no, it was a commercial failure.
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Fortunately there was a computer scientist at Bell Labs
named Ken Thompson.
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He’d worked on the Multics project and was inspired
by the interactive computing
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it provided.
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Unfortunately, scrapping the Multics project
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meant that he no longer had a system with which
to perform serious work like
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Space Travel,
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A space simulation game
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He had written for Multics on the
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GE 650 mainframe.
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With Dennis Ritchie’s assistance
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and his experience from the Multics project,
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they were able to craft together an operating system
of assembly language
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running on a PDP-7.
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It was capable of interactive
computing with a terminal
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rather than just feeding in
punched keycards.
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They termed it the UNIX systems.
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UNIX system, short for Uniplexed Information
and Computing System,
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A play on the Multics name.
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It's supported a number of users...
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Did I miss something?
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It supported a number of users...
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Talk about your anticlimactic slides.
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By 1970,
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it officially became known as U-N-I-X
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probably to save a byte of memory.
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They would have made really good
OpenBSD programmers back then.
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By 1971, the UNIX System was officially
put into production use.
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It had been ported to the PDP-11.
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It was capable of text processing
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for the purpose of filing patents.
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I was trying to visualize software patents
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and a cat kicking a dog is probably
the closest thing to it in real life.
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By 1973,
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they rewrote UNIX
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in a portable language created by Dennis Ritchie.
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The C programming language evolved from the B language
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adding data types and structures.
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Thanks to a 1958 antitrust case, AT&T had been
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forbidden to enter the computer business.
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This meant UNIX could not be turned into a product,
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so they would ship tapes
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and disk packs of the source code
to anyone who asked.
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Since the source code was freely available
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and ran in a portable computer language
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universities and research labs worldwide were able to run
UNIX on their own systems.
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By 1974,
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Professor Bob Fabry
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at the University of Cal Berkeley
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purchased a copy of UNIX for $99
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for their own PDP-11
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By 1977,
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Bill Jolitz, a graduate student of Cal Berkeley,
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distributed the Berkeley Software Distribution
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otherwise known as
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1BSD.
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It included a Pascal compiler,
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the ex editor,
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and the ex editor.
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By 1978,
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2BSD had been released
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which added the vi editor
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and a C shell.
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I'm definitely not old school when it comes to editors.
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Corn Shell for the win.
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1979,
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3BSD was released,
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adding support for the VAX platform.
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It was coined as Virtual VAX or VMUNIX
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thanks to the new virtual memory implementation
written specifically for the VAX UNIX/32V
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computer at Berkeley.
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Thanks to the success of 3BSD
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the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
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ordered Berkeley CSRG with a contract to enhance UNIX
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for the VLSI project.
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These enhancements were
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eventually released
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as 4BSD.
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Which added job control for the C shell
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delivermail, the predecessor to sendmail,
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the curses programming library,
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and reliable signals.
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Unfortunately, 4BSD was criticized for bad
performance on the VAX platform,
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so Bill Jolitz went back to work tuning the kernel
to outperform VMS on the VAX
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eventually releasing 4.1BSD for these performance fixes.
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Two years later,
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4.2 was released
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incorporating a TCP/IP stack from BBN Technologies,
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also a contractor for DARPA,
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as well as the Berkeley Fast File System,
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written by a dapper young man by the name of Kirk McKusick,
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who was also kind enough to give us the original BSD mascot.
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In 1986,
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4.3BSD was unleashed
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incorporating numerous performance improvements,
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including a non-BBN version of the TCP/IP stack,
which was found to be superior by DARPA.
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1998,
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the next version of BSD was released.
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4.3BSD-Tahoe, so named for the short-lived
Power 6/32 “Tahoe” platform.
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This was an initial attempt of moving away
from the VAX platform.
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Although the Tahoe was unsuccessful, it helped introduce
machine-independent code that would improve
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BSD's future portability.
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Up to this point, all versions of BSD
included proprietary AT&T code .
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It required licenses from AT&T for their use.
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These licenses have become prohibitively expensive,
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driving demand for an AT&T-free version of UNIX.
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This led to the release of Net/1
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a BSD license distribution of the FreeBSD networking code,
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unencumbered by any AT&T code or licenses.
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The next year,
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4.3BSD-Reno
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was released.
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The name suggesting
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a gamble when used production use.
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Regardless, it included the MACH virtual memory
system,
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Sun-compatible NFS,
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and continued the movement toward POSIX compliance.
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It became apparent that the AT&T code was a
hassle, so Keith Bostic at the CSRG
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re-wrote virtually all of the utilities and code that was
still from AT&T.
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In the middle of 1991
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Net/2 was released,
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a nearly complete BSD UNIX system that was freely
distributable under the BSD license.
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Net/2 was the basis for two separate ports
of BSD to the Intel 80386 architecture.
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Bill Jolitz started the 386BSD distribution,
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which became the basis for the 3BSD and
NetBSD projects.
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Berkeley Software Design (BSDI)
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came out with BSD/386,
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a proprietary version later renamed as BSD/OS.
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In 1992,
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a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T,
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UNIX System Laboratories,
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also known as USL,
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filed suit against BSDI claiming that AT&T’s
proprietary code was included in
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the BSD UNIX product.
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An injunction was filed asking for BSDI
to discontinue their use of advertising
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which alluded to the UNIX name
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own by AT&T, and supposedly aimed
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to confuse unsuspecting users
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or buyers
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regardless of the fact that the BSD sold
for $995,
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a 99% discount over AT&T's System V UNIX
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which retailed for one hundred to
two hundred thousand dollars.
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You can see why the average consumer might
get confused.
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After an extensive analysis, it was
determined that the BSD/OS
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was little more than Net/2, peppered with six files from Bill
Jolitz’s 386BSD.
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The judge presiding over the case
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denied the injunction
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forcing USL to narrow their complaint
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to recent copyrights
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and a possibility of the loss of trade secrets.
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The judge also recommended that the case be
heard at a state court before filing in a federal court.
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So, taking this hint from the judge
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they ran out to California,
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refiled as quickly as possible (the University of Cal Berkeley)
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to take any action-- to prevent--
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it resulted that if USL wanted to take any action
against university and state courts,
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it would be forced to do so in California
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rather than their home state of New Jersey.
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Soon after the filing in state court,
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USL was bought from AT&T by Novell.
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By 1994, a settlement had been reached in private.
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The exact details of the settlement were unknown
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until in 2004 when a California
public records law
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allowed the details to be released
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where they were published on the Groklaw site.
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Details of the settlement included
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these, and I think we've covered this in
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Kirk’s talk, so we won't need to
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iterate over those.
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In hindsight, this confirmed our suspicions
of USL’s fate.
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In June of 1994,
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two BSD distributions were released
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4.4BSD-Encumbered
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was a version of BSD with AT&T code.
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It was only available to AT&T licensees.
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4.4BSD-Lite was also released which
contained no AT&T code.
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It would become the new basis for a re-sync of the
FreeBSD and NetBSD source code trees.
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As I mentioned, 4.4BSD-Lite
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became the new baseline from which all the BSD
distributions would be based.
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FreeBSD, one of the first,
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and probably the most popular of the modern BSD
distributions (bite my tongue),
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has a historically been focused on the Intel
x86 platform
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and Linux and Windows markets.
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Nevertheless,
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FreeBSD has been been ported to other platforms,
including Intel x86, Itanium,
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AMD64, DEC Alpha
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PowerPC, and Sun UltraSPARC.
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Some of the more popular features include
application jails, access controls,
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excellent networking, SMP performance,
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and more recently, ports of Solaris features
like ZFS and dtrace.
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NetBSD,
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which was also originally derived
from Jolitz’s 386BSD,
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is typically known for portability to a wide range of
hardware platforms.
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NetBSD has been ported to over 50 hardware platforms,
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and kitchen appliances.
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OpenBSD!
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(No bias at all.)
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OpenBSD is yet another modern BSD derivative,
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originally forked from NetBSD 1.0.
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It's known for being highly secure
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with an emphasis on code correctness
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proper documentation and truly open
and free source code.
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Their mantra is ""secure by default.""
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This philosophy has influenced in countless other free
and proprietary operating systems which now follow
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their example.
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Here are some of the more popular platforms
that OpenBSD has been ported to.
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And although OpenBSD has numerous security enhancements,
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we make efforts to integrate these changes into the
base system as native, transparent technologies.
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The philosophy has proven much more effective
than ""bolt-on"" technology such as SELinux,
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where the onus is placed on the Systems Administrator
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and is quite often disabled.
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I'm being generous.
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You see, here are
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some of the features in OpenBSD.
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They have a consistent release schedule with new releases
available around the first of May and November.
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DragonFly, another BSD,
started by Matt Dillon in 2003.
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It's a logical continuation of FreeBSD 4.8.
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He started the DragonFly BSD project
when his vision for threading in SMP conflicted
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with the other developers working on FreeBSD 5.
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They continued work on their SMP revamp
(which, I think, is probably complete by now),
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as well as the other lightweight
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kernel threads implementation.
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More modern goals are focused on supporting
generic clustering support natively in the kernel,
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and features like the HammerFS.
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MAC OS X is an operating system
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sold by Apple
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which runs on both PowerPC and Intel platforms.
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Alright, hecklers.
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Darwin is the heart of OS X,
a full capable BSD UNIX derivative,
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with enhancements brought in to make OS X
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a true consumer-friendly operating system.
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Unfortunately, it's still somewhat of a hybrid,
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merging the Mach kernel from NeXTSTEP
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along with various userland pieces
from FreeBSD.
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Some other BSD distributions including
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Tru64 UNIX from DEC
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then Compaq, then HP.
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Now we've covered some of the history behind BSD,
I like to address the real shortcomings
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of modern day BSD.
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So, why is BSD dying?
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That's what we're here to uncover.
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First and foremost,
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because IDC says so.
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Market share is at an all-time low,
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under 1%.
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And of course,
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Netcraft confirms these findings.
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BSD came in last place
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in a SysAdmin networking test.
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I don’t recall which of the BSDs were tested, but it's
probably safe to assume they all finished dead last.
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Market leaders and pundits have predicted that
open-source software can't make money.
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If we continue to give away free software, how
will we finance our developers?
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Analysts are forecasting a slow spiral into bankruptcy.
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It's a little dated, but man, you just got to love this guy.
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BSD... Bad!
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As a community,
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BSD has had a surprising inability to
adapt.
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As we can see by this graph...
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As we can see by this graph, the number of
ASP pages served per hour
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on Windows servers far outnumber those
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on Linux and all the BSDs.
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Linux actually did generate some.
We have to presume it's because of obfuscation.
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Renaming their files ASP.
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Of course, a significant loss of talent.
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FreeBSD has lost 93% of their core
developers.
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It's assumed that most of these have jumped ship
to DragonFly BSD.
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Unfortunately, since none of the BSDs share code,
they usually have to start from scratch all over again
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tracing the project’s roots from 4.5BSD-lite.
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Fortunately, not all is lost.
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There's still a handful of very small companies
still using BSD today.
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I know you probably haven’t heard of most of these.
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This is my employer!
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Yay, OmniTI.
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Hopefully, the successes seen at--
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yes, the lawers actually told me
I had to put that on there--
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hopefully the successes seen in these isolated industries
will bubble up into the mainstream.
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Looking forward, there's a number of challenges
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ahead of us to ensure the BSD survives
generations of future geeks.
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The challenges aren’t simply of the technological
nature,
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but includ a number of political and legal
obstacles as well.
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First and foremost, virtualization is on everybody’s
radar.
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Products like Xen, QEMU, VMware, and Parallels
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allow us to optimize our resources running BSD.
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All this means I can run over 100,000 instances of NetBSD
on a server with four gigs of memory/
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It also means I have to hire 1,000
NetBSD systems administrators
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to manage that one server.
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Not only is this a miserable return of investment,
I don’t think there are over a thousand NetBSD users out there.
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We're looking for more advanced file systems
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to handle the current performance limits
associated with high capacity multi-tier byte arrays.
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Ports of Solaris ZFS have already been completed
in part to FreeBSD 7 and MAC OS X
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They have blobs, NDA’s,
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and closed documentation all go hand in hand.
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These are political challenges that threaten
to limit hardware availability to BSD developers
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and end users.
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Projects like Linux, and even FreeBSD
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had casually signed
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agreements and NDA’s to accept non-free binary
drivers into the source tree.
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These arrangements work against the spirit
of free software,
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and open-source software, all for the purposes
of short-term gains
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like 3D eye-candy and rotating desktops.
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This coming the guy who set up a
game server in the next room.
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Within the last year or so, legal challenges have surfaced.
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Linux developers have blatantly stolen BSD licensed code,
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replacing the license notification with GPL
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and any of their copyrights where no work was done.
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Beyond the legal ramifications of these actions,
this demonstrate a lack of respect
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and cooperation for their free
software peers.
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Diversity in the BSD is a healthy trend.
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It promotes new features and competition
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in the intellectual market
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resulting in better systems for all of us.
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In the end, diversity can bring unity throughout our community.
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And with unity,
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a common goal.
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The end.
