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Kirk McKusick - A Narrative History of BSD

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What it is

Kirk McKusick gives a narrative history of the Berkeley Software Distributions at MeetBSD California. He covers how BSD originated and evolved, including the origin of the networking releases.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as the authoritative, first-hand telling of BSD lore whenever Unix and BSD history comes up.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “Maybe you have some fun with BSD-Lore (Kirk McKusick)”

    Kirk McKusick on BSD lore

    nix23, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in “Linux Sucks 2020 [video]”

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Topics: bsd, unix history, freebsd, kirk mckusick, operating systems

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