*BSD Information on Minnie

Welcome to the WWW information on *BSD kept on minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au. *BSD is a term to describe all the freely available flavours of the 4.x BSD operating system for the 386/486/Pentium PCs and other hardware platforms.

Keywords in italics will eventually become hyperlinks.

NEWS

6th May 1994 - FreeBSD 1.1-RELEASE is released. There is a copy here on minnie.
May 1994 - Geoff Rehmet has set up a FreeBSD page in South Africa. There is another hyperlink below.
15th Mar 1994 - XFree86 2.1 is released. There is a copy here on minnie.
1st Mar, 1994 - You can now buy 4.4BSD-Lite from UCB.
6th Feb 1994 - The USL/UCB litigation has finally been settled.
4th Feb 1994 - The USL/BSDi litigation has finally been settled as well.

General Information

386BSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD are the main systems in *BSD. 386BSD is derived from 4.3BSD, and FreeBSD & NetBSD are derived from 386BSD and will migrate to 4.4BSD.

If you have any questions about/problems with the systems, one of the best places to look are the Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

Several mailing lists are available for ongoing development of FreeBSD and NetBSD; *BSD user group mailing lists are also available.

Both FreeBSD and NetBSD are available on a number of CD-ROMs.

Motif is available for the *BSDs; you have to pay for it though.

For those interested in the history of *BSD, a short file giving the release dates of the *BSD systems is on minnie. The file also indicates the number of Usenet news articles about *BSD. At the time of writing about 1,000 *BSD articles are sent each month.

Stuff on Minnie

BSD Stuff via FTP

Minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au keeps a small amount of *BSD-related stuff which can be obtained via anonymous ftp.

BSD News on Minnie

Minnie archives the Usenet news about *BSD. This can be by obtained via anonymous ftp, email, through an interactive telnet interface, or NOW through a Web interface.

Source Code Navigator for FreeBSD

I am working on a hyperlinked version of a *BSD source code tree. This allows you to quickly find functions in the source code, and to follow references to a function. Click here to see a rough cut of what I want to do.

Other Information

User Groups

There are a number of user groups for the systems in *BSD. Find out if one of them is near you!

Other Sites for *BSD

Many other machines in the world have *BSD stuff available for anonymous ftp. There are probably some Gopher sites, but I don't know about them as yet.

Other *BSD-related URLs

Geoff Rehmet has set up a FreeBSD page in South Africa.
The BSDI page. BSDI sells a commercial version of 4.4BSD for the 386/486/Pentium.

Information on the Demon Pictures

Non-commercial and personal use of the following GIF is permitted. Mass production or commercial use requires explicit written permission. Permission may be obtained by writing to:

    Marshall Kirk McKusick
    1614 Oxford St
    Berkeley, CA 94709-1608
    USA

Warren Toomey wkt@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au, February 1994