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.

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

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
- Online
- Print Edition
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
- Bugzilla
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Suite
- Mozilla Thunderbird
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
- Zend Platform
- Zend Studio
Zeus Technology
- Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager
- Zeus Load Balancer
- Zeus Mass Hosting Application
- Zeus Web Server
- Zisp CGI Toolkit

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.

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.