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# $FreeBSD$
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# $FreeBSD: www/en/news/Makefile,v 1.16 1999/09/06 07:02:46 peter Exp $
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.if exists(../Makefile.conf)
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [
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<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
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<!ENTITY date "$Date: 2000-03-09 21:00:25 $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Press Release: March 9, 2000">
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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<!ENTITY % newsincludes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %newsincludes;
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<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
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<html>
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&header;
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<p></p>
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<h3>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h3>
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<h3>BSD SUPPLIERS UNITE TO DELIVER THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR INTERNET
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OPERATING SYSTEMS</h3>
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<h4>The New BSDI To Deliver Renowned BSD Operating System Technologies And
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Back The Rapidly Growing FreeBSD Open Source Community</h4>
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<p><b>Colorado Springs, Colo., March 9, 2000:</b> Berkeley Software
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Design, Inc. (BSDI) announced today that it has merged with Walnut
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Creek CDROM, the distributor of the popular FreeBSD operating system.
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As a merged company, the new BSDI unites the leading developers and
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suppliers of the Berkeley Software Distribution operating system
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BSDI will develop and deliver advanced BSD® Internet operating systems
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and platforms, while providing the open source FreeBSD Project with
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technology, backing and expanded support.</p>
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<p>BSD operating systems run some of the Internet's most highly trafficked
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sites and largest service providers, including Yahoo!, Microsoft's
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Hotmail and UUNET, an MCI WorldCom company. BSD and Linux are today's
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fastest-growing operating systems, according to Survey.com, the leading
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eResearch company.</p>
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<p>BSD operating system, networking and Internet technologies have
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achieved widespread acceptance in the Internet infrastructure. Over
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100,000 commercial Internet customers run BSD operating systems on more
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than 2,000,000 BSD-powered servers. It is estimated that nine out of 10
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Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Network Service Providers (NSPs)
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as well as 15 percent of all Internet sites run BSD systems. BSD
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operating systems are also embedded in innovative Internet appliances
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from Intel, IBM, Lucent, F5 Labs, Hitachi and many others.</p>
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<p>BSDI also announced that Yahoo! Inc. will take an equity interest in
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the new company. BSDI will leverage the equity interest to execute on
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its plan to build a bridge between open source innovation and commercial
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requirements. The equity position will be used to grow BSDI's presence
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as a leading provider of the most advanced Internet operating systems
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for the Internet infrastructure.</p>
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<p>BSDI intends to form a united front for the BSD operating systems. The
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company will deliver, support and enhance both BSD/OS and FreeBSD. BSDI
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and the FreeBSD Project are jointly evaluating the technology and market
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requirements for merging parts of the code bases for the two operating
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systems.</p>
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<h3>The New BSDI's Leadership</h3>
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<p>"BSD technologies have evolved from a long history of advanced
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computing at the core of the Internet," said Dr. Marshall Kirk
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McKusick, BSDI's chairman of the board. "The new BSDI will further
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enrich the popular BSD computing platform, which is already widely
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deployed throughout the world." McKusick was a founding member of the
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University of California at Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group
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(CSRG) and is widely acknowledged as a key early contributor to the open
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source movement.</p>
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<p>To drive the new BSDI's vision, roadmap and continued profitable
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growth, Gary J. Johnson has been appointed chief executive officer.
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Johnson is an experienced technology executive who has served in a
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variety of senior management, sales, marketing and operations capacities
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with leading Silicon Valley companies including Tandem Computers
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(Compaq), Convergent Technologies (Unisys) and SCO. Johnson most
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recently served as president of ClickService Software, a leading
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provider of e-commerce, customer relationship management (CRM)
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software.</p>
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<p>"Innovation in the operating systems arena relies heavily on work in
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the open source community," said Johnson. "To date, Linux suppliers,
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such as Red Hat Software and VA Linux, have captured impressive
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attention for the open source approach to development. At the core of
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the Internet, however, BSD technologies are pervasive. The new BSDI will
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be working closely with the open source community to ensure that
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advanced BSD Internet operating systems and platforms continue to meet
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the ever-increasing demands for Internet servers, applications,
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appliances and other elements vital to the Internet infrastructure."</p>
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<p>In addition to his current responsibilities, Mike Karels, BSDI's vice
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president of engineering and the former chief system architect and
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principal programmer for the University of California at Berkeley's
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CSRG, plans to join the architectural team for the FreeBSD Project.
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Karels, who replaced Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy at the CSRG,
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is recognized as one of the world's foremost developers of Unix
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internals and TCP/IP networking software.</p>
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<p>"BSD technologies have contributed to Yahoo!'s continued success by
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offering the reliability and level of service necessary to ensure the
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availability and scalability we need to keep Yahoo! up and running
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around the clock regardless of increasing user demand," said David Filo,
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co-founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc.</p>
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<h3>BSDI Continues To Deliver BSD/OS And FreeBSD; Expands And Accelerates
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FreeBSD Open Source Initiatives</h3>
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<p>The new BSDI will sell and support FreeBSD, BSD/OS, BSDI Internet Super
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Server and value-added BSD product lines through its worldwide sales
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channels to Internet infrastructure providers, appliance developers and
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business users. BSDI will offer commercially supported BSD operating
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systems and related applications, Internet appliance platforms,
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technical support and services, open source software development, and
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consulting services. The company will deliver its BSD Internet and
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networking technologies on leading microprocessor platforms, including
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Intel, SPARC, Alpha, PowerPC and StrongARM.</p>
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<p>BSDI will continue to develop, enhance and distribute BSD/OS and
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FreeBSD according to the terms of the business-friendly, unencumbered
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Berkeley software license, which encourages development for open source
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software projects, embedded systems, specialized applications,
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information appliances and other operating system-enabled products.</p>
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<p>BSDI will expand and accelerate Walnut Creek CDROM's FreeBSD open
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source initiatives by sharing BSD/OS technical innovations with the
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FreeBSD Project and by providing this open source project with
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operational and technical support, marketing and funding. BSDI will
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continue to distribute packaged versions of FreeBSD and also plans to
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develop value-added products based on FreeBSD as well as to provide
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technical support, consulting services, educational services and
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training for FreeBSD customers. These steps are expected to promote and
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invigorate the BSD open source computing movement. The FreeBSD Project
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develops the popular FreeBSD operating system and aggregates and
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integrates contributed software from more than 5,000 developers
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worldwide.</p>
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<h3>Internet and Open Source Leaders Support The New BSDI</h3>
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<p>"We are delighted that BSDI is backing the FreeBSD open source
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community," said Jordan Hubbard, chief evangelist and co-founder of the
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FreeBSD Project. "The new BSDI has considerable expertise in
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commercializing, maintaining, distributing and supporting the world's
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most advanced Internet operating systems. We are excited and greatly
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looking forward to partnering with BSDI's chief developers, especially
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Mike Karels and other original members of UC Berkeley's CSRG, to
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accelerate operating system, networking and Internet innovation."</p>
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<p>"Open source operating systems like BSD offer better technology and
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more choices to the customer," said Eric Raymond, president of the Open
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Source Initiative. "I expect BSDI to prove yet again that the open
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source and business communities can really to do great things together,
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driving the industry forward as dramatically as the Internet."</p>
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<p>"Our research shows that BSD and Linux will increase their share of
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enterprise servers by between 100 percent and 500 percent over the next
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two years in the fundamental applications that run U.S. business," said
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Dave Trowbridge, senior analyst at Survey.com. "This new company will
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help ensure that BSD gets its place in the sun, which its rich heritage
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and solid technical foundations deserve."</p>
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<h3>About the Berkeley Software Distribution Operating System</h3>
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<p>Berkeley Software Distribution operating system technologies were
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originally developed from 1979 to 1992 by the Computer Systems Research
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Group (CSRG) at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Berkeley-derived operating system and networking technologies are at the
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heart of most modern Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Today,
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virtually every major Internet infrastructure provider uses BSD
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operating systems. BSD operating system technologies are used by
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leading mission-critical network computing environments and are embedded
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in Internet appliance platforms that require advanced Internet
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functionality, reliability and security.</p>
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<h3>About the FreeBSD Project</h3>
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<p>FreeBSD is a popular open source operating system developed by the
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FreeBSD Project and its worldwide team, consisting of more than 5,000
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developers funneling their work to 185 "committer" developers. It is
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available free of charge from ftp.FreeBSD.org and also distributed as a
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shrink-wrap software product through CompUSA, Fry's, Borders, Ingram,
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FreeBSDmall.com and others. FreeBSD includes thousands of ported
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applications, including the most popular Web, Internet and E-mail
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applications. FreeBSD is distributed under the Berkeley Software
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Distribution license, which means that it can be copied and modified
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freely. For more information about the FreeBSD Project, visit <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/">www.FreeBSD.org</a>.</p>
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<h3>About Walnut Creek CDROM</h3>
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<p>Walnut Creek CDROM was founded in 1991 and began publishing Linux
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software in 1992, and BSD software in 1993. The company has a long
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history of working closely with the free software community and
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providing funding, staffing and other resources for open source
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projects. Walnut Creek CDROM publishes numerous software titles,
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including FreeBSD and Slackware, the most BSD-like version of Linux.</p>
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<p>About Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDI)</p>
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<p>Leading BSD developers founded Berkeley Software Design, Inc. in 1991
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to commercialize BSD technologies and continue the Berkeley Unix
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tradition of robust, reliable and extremely secure Internet operating
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systems for network computing. By merging Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
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and Walnut Creek CDROM, BSDI becomes the world's leading supplier of
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advanced Internet operating systems for the Internet infrastructure.
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Contact BSDI at <a href="mailto:info@BSDI.com">info@BSDI.com</a> or at
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<a href="http://www.BSDI.com/">www.BSDI.com</a> or call 1-719-593-9445
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(toll free: 1-800-800-4273).</p>
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<h3># # #</h3>
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<p>BSD is a registered trademark and BSD/OS and BSDI are trademarks of
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Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are registered
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trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All trademarks mentioned in this document are
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the property of their respective owners.</p>
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<p>Contact:<br>
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Kevin Rose<br>
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BSDI<br>
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801-553-8166<br>
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<a href="mailto:kgr@bsdi.com">kgr@bsdi.com</a></p>
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<p>Jordan Hubbard<br>
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FreeBSD Project<br>
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925-691-2863<br>
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<a href="mailto:jkh@FreeBSD.org">jkh@FreeBSD.org</a></p>
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<p>Brigid Fuller<br>
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ZNA Communications<br>
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831-425-1581<br>
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<a href="mailto:brigid@zna.com">brigid@zna.com</a></p>
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<dt>March 9, 2000</dt>
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<dd>
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<a href="press-rel-4.html">
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BSD Suppliers Unite to Deliver the World's Most Popular Internet Operating
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Systems</a>
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<p></p>
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<dt>June 7, 1999</dt>
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<dd>
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