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386BSD

Not to be confused with BSD/386, the commercial Unix sold by BSDi.
386BSD
386BSD Release 0.1 installer ("Tiny 386BSD")
DeveloperWilliam Jolitz
Lynne Jolitz
OS familyUnix-like
Working stateHistorical
Source modelOpen source
Initial release0.0[1] March 12, 1992 (1992-03-12)
Latest release2.0 / August 2016 (2016-08)
Repository
Platformsx86
LicenseBSD license
Succeeded byFreeBSD, NetBSD
Official website386bsd.org

386BSD (also known as "Jolix"[2]) is a Unix-like operating system[3] that was developed by couple Lynne and William "Bill" Jolitz.[4] Released as free and open source in 1992, it was the first fully operational Unix built to run on IBM PC-compatible systems based on the Intel 80386 ("i386") microprocessor, and the first Unix-like system on affordable home-class hardware to be freely distributed.[5] Its innovations included role-based security, ring buffers, self-ordered configuration and modular kernel design.

Development began in 1989 while the Jolitzes were at the University of California, Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG), intended to be a port of BSD to 386-based personal computers. They then contributed the project to the university with some of the work ending up in BSD's Net/2, distributed in 1991.[6] However when the CSRG scrapped the project and ruled that his work was "university proprietary", Jolitz rewrote the code from scratch,[7] based on the incomplete free code from Net/2.[6] Jolitz also claims that 386BSD was the base of Berkeley Software Design (BSDi)'s commercial BSD/386.[7]

386BSD was short-lived as disagreements between Jolitz and a group of users regarding its future direction led to the users forking it into the FreeBSD project as well as the separate NetBSD, both of which continue to this day; 386BSD's version 1.0 was released in 1994, after which work on it had ceased.[8] Eventually, Linux would take off as the most popular complete free Unix clone for PCs,[9] partly due to the slow progress of 386BSD and the ongoing lawsuit surrounding BSD.[10]

  1. ^ "386BSD 0.0 Release Notes".
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference foldoc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Index of /pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.0/floppies". 188.44.42.58. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
  4. ^ Chalmers, Rachel (2000-05-17). "The unknown hackers". Salon. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  5. ^ Bentson, Randolph. "The Humble Beginnings of Linux". dl.acm.org. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
  6. ^ a b "Jolitz: The Road Not Taken". www.tech-insider.org. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
  7. ^ a b "Unix Labs' Berkeley Software Design Suit Finds Berkeley University in Disarray". www.tech-insider.org. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
  8. ^ "History of Unix, BSD, GNU, and Linux - CrystalLabs — Davor Ocelic's Blog". crystallabs.io. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  9. ^ Lunduke, Bryan (2023-04-16). "The very first interview about Linux with Linus Torvalds - Oct 28, 1992". The Lunduke Journal of Technology. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  10. ^ Leonard, Andrew (2000-05-16). "BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code". Salon. Retrieved 2024-12-05.

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