BSD

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BSD is a generic name which describes several operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. All BSD operating systems are code-descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution version of the UNIX operating system, which is itself descended from Bell Labs' original UNIX.