Sometimes, we get a little full of ourselves in the Linux community. We portray ourselves as the elder statesmen, the users of the oldest open source operating system around. Except, of course, we're not. The oldest open source operating systems are the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) operating systems, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, the commercial BSD/OS, and Apple's BSD-based MacOS X.

What's so great about BSD? Plenty. The old daemon might even teach the penguin a thing or two. Read on, neophytes.

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