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- Recommended by 2 people: 1 on Hacker News and 1 on Lobsters.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2014 to 2020.
- Presented by Marshall Kirk McKusick, BSD developer
Beginner. No background in the topic needed.
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History and cultureSystems programmingOperating systemsHistory of computingNetworking and protocols
Marshall Kirk McKusick shares the history of the Berkeley Software Distributions, detailing how BSD originated, evolved, and introduced networking releases.
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2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as an engaging and authoritative introduction to BSD lore and the history of Unix networking.
nix23on Hacker News • Recommends
On “Linux Sucks 2020 [video]”
Yep, that! Maybe you have some fun with BSD-Lore (Kirk McKusick): link to this video Or Solaris/illumos (Bryan M. Cantrill): link
pjmlpon Hacker News • Mentions
On “The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan”
"Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The, 2nd Edition" link Marshall Kirk McKusick has done some talks on the subject. link to this video link link link
damhsaon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam”
…tem, UNIX, etc. and should be your first introduction to UNIX/BSD, while the man(1) program (vol1) serves as a complementary quick reference for experienced users and for short programs that dont need much explanation. sadly V7 wont tell you about the internet because that was started by the "net" releases of 4.3-4.4BSD (see kirk mckusicks history link to this video ) for vi, get the PostScript.ps files for the OTHER manual from keith bostics sources (openbsd src only has troff source and no troff): link echo pkg_add ghostscript | su root tar xfz nvi-1.79.tar.gz cd nvi-1.79/docs/USD.doc (cd vi.ref; ps2pdf vi.ref.ps) (cd vi.tut; ps2pdf vi.tut.ps) the interactive vi tutorial is also great: cp /usr/src/…