"iXsystems, an enterprise-class hardware solution provider, announced today its acquisition of PC-BSD, a rock solid UNIX operating system based on FreeBSD. PC-BSD is a fully functional desktop operating system running FreeBSD version 6, with a KDE desktop interface and graphical system installer. Its PBI system, developed exclusively for PC-BSD, lets users download and install their applications in a self-extracting and installing format. iXsystems' acquisition of PC-BSD will provide funding to the PC-BSD project to increase distribution of PC-BSD and develop future versions of PC-BSD. Development is currently underway for a version of PC-BSD that will allow for easy installation and operation on servers, workstations, and laptops."
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Member since:2005-07-06
The "Beer and Hobby Society" isn't anywhere in the Unix community, maybe out there, where people try to mimic some real Unix 
Like every non Open Group certified POSIX compliant OS out there, such as GNU/Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD, FreeBSD, DesktopBSD, PC-BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD?
Matter of fact, nothing is UNIX if the Open Group has not rubber stamped it. So spare us the "We're real UNIX" until you pony up the money to be certified. Until then these BSD OSes are just another rewritten Unix clone.
After certification it will still mean nothing though. It is not the pedigree that counts, but what the technology can actually do for you.
Pounding on your chest that you delineate from the original UNIX, while it was with shady copyright dealings, is not something to write home about.
r_a_trip. Sick and tired of the false "we're better, we're REAL Unix" blathering.
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*BSD isn't just a "hobby os", it's a full grown Unix, with a strong engineering background! The "Beer and Hobby Society" isn't anywhere in the Unix community, maybe out there, where people try to mimic some real Unix