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The Berkeley Standard Distribution, commonly referred to as BSD, was a distribution of Unix. It now refers to a family of operating systems.

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-The '''Berkeley Standard Distribution''', commonly referred to as '''BSD''', was a distribution of Unix. It now refers to a family of operating systems: '''FreeBSD''', '''NetBSD''', '''OpenBSD''', and so on.
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== History ==

Like Unix, the original BSD is discontinued. The community surrounding it evolved past Unix and re-implemented the kernel and userland under the '''BSD license'''. There is now a family of operating systems tied to this community and history.



=== BSD License ===
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+ * [[BSD/NetBSD|NetBSD]]
 * [[BSD/OpenBSD|OpenBSD]]



== Administration ==

 * [[BSD/DNS|DNS]]



== Configuration Files ==

 * [[BSD/nsswitch.conf|nsswitch.conf]]