{"id":577,"date":"2006-01-23T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=577"},"modified":"2006-01-23T09:28:12","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T14:28:12","slug":"the-bsd-unix-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2006\/01\/23\/the-bsd-unix-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The BSD Unix family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Informit has a very, well, <em> informative<\/em> article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/article.asp?p=439601\">BSD family<\/a> of Unix operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>For over three years now, I have been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbsd.org\">OpenBSD<\/a> for its high security and powerful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbsd.org\/cgi-bin\/man.cgi?query=pf\">packet filtering<\/a>.  With a history dating back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levenez.com\/unix\/history.html#05\">as far as 1978<\/a>, BSD is incredibly stable and each branch of it gets more flexible with each release.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/licenses\/bsd-license.php\">BSD License<\/a> is much <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BSD_and_GPL_licensing\">less restrictive <\/a>than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/licenses\/gpl-license.php\">GPL<\/a> (used by Linux), which makes BSD attractive to businesses.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Informit has a very, well, informative article on the BSD family of Unix operating systems. For over three years now, I have been using OpenBSD for its high security and powerful packet filtering. With a history dating back as far as 1978, BSD is incredibly stable and each branch of it gets more flexible with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}