The MIT License is similar to the 3-clause “modified” BSD license, except that the BSD license contains a notice prohibiting the use of the name of the copyright holder in promotion. This is sometimes present in versions of the MIT License, as noted above.

The original BSD license also includes a clause requiring all advertising of the software to display a notice crediting its authors. This “advertising clause” (since disavowed by UC Berkeley) is present in the modified MIT License used by XFree86.

The MIT License states more explicitly the rights given to the end-user, including the right to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell the software.

A 2-clause BSD-style license used by FreeBSD (and preferred for NetBSD) is essentially identical to the MIT License, as it contains neither an advertising clause, nor a prohibition on promotional use of the copyright holder’s name.

Also similar in terms is the ISC license, which has a simpler language.

The University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License combines text from both the MIT and BSD licenses; the license grant and disclaimer are taken from the MIT License.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article MIT License, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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After growing up in suburban Detroit, Michigan, Joy received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and his M.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1979. Joy’s PhD advisor was Bob Fabry.

As a UC Berkeley graduate student, Joy worked for Fabry’s Computer Systems Research Group CSRG in managing the BSD support and rollout where many claim he was largely responsible for managing the authorship of BSD UNIX, from which sprang many modern forms of UNIX, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Apple Inc. has based much of the Mac OS X kernel and OS Services on the BSD technology.

Some of his most notable contributions were the vi editor, NFS, and csh. Joy’s prowess as a computer programmer is legendary, with an oft-told anecdote that he wrote the vi editor in a weekend. Joy denies this assertion.

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell at the time, continued the mythopoesis during an interview in PBS’s documentary Nerds 2.0.1, inflating Bill Joy’s accomplishments as having personally rewritten the BSD kernel in a weekend.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Bill Joy, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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*Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) used to secure Wi-Fi wireless networks

*Microsoft Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI)

*OpenDocument encryption used in OpenOffice.org

*[http://www.zetetic.net/software/sqlcipher SQLCipher], an encrypted variant of SQLite

*WinZip’s AES Encryption scheme.

*JBoss Seam Framework JpaIdentityStore.generatePasswordHash (as of 2.1.2)

*Grub 2, for password hashing.

Disk encryption software

*FileVault (Mac OS X) from Apple Computer

*FreeOTFE (Windows and Pocket PC PDAs); also supports mounting Linux (e.g. LUKS) volumes under Windows

*LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) (Linux)

*TrueCrypt (Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X)

*[http://netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-cgd.html Cryptographic disk] (NetBSD)

*GEOM ELI module for FreeBSD

*softraid crypto for OpenBSD

*EncFS (Linux) since v1.5.0

== External links

*[http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2127 RSA PKCS #5] – RSA Laboratories PKCS #5 v2.0 – Multiple Formats, and test vectors.

*RFC 2898

Implementations

*[http://code.google.com/p/as3-pbkdf2/ ActionScript 3.0 implementation]

*[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography.rfc2898derivebytes.aspx .NET's built-in function]

*[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163913.aspx C# implementation]

*[http://anandam.name/pbkdf2 JavaScript implementation (slow)] [http://code.google.com/p/crypto-js/ JavaScript implementation (fast)]

*[http://www.dlitz.net/software/python-pbkdf2 Python implementation]

*[http://github.com/emerose/pbkdf2-ruby/tree/master Ruby implementation]

*[http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/bioctl/pbkdf2.c?rev=HEAD&content-type=text%2Fplain C implementation]

Category:Password authentication

Category:Cryptography standards

Adapted from the Wikipedia article PBKDF2, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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* Amiga 2065 the first Ethernet controller for Amiga computer family. Uses the Zorro-II bus interface and equipped with the NMOS Am7990 chip.

* MicroVAX Q-Bus Ethernet controllers (like the DELQA).

* DECstation 2100/3100 MIPS architecture motherboard Ethernet.

* DEC 3000 AXP 64-bit Alpha AXP architecture motherboard.

* Sun Microsystems Sun Hydra 3/80, SPARCstation 1, SPARCstation 2, and SPARCstation IPX computer motherboard.

* Various x86-Personal computer ISA network interface cards (some called NE1500 and NE2100 ). Under Unix operating systems like FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Linux the device driver is usually called le(4).

* QEMU emulating Sun-4 architecture (sun4m) virtual network interface.

* GXemul with le(4) emulating ARM, MIPS, M88K, PowerPC, and SuperH CPU. One example architecture is DECstation 5000 (3max).

Adapted from the Wikipedia article AMD Lance Am7990, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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FreeBASIC is a free/open source (GPL), 32-bit BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, protected-mode DOS (DOS extender), Linux, FreeBSD and Xbox.

FreeBASIC allows a high level of support for programs written for QuickBASIC, by using the “QB” dialect. Many programs written for QuickBASIC will compile and run in this mode without any changes needed. However, most substantial programs will need changes to be made before they can be compiled using the default dialect. It is not as related to Microsoft’s later Visual Basic language, for that Gambas is the most relevant free software project.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article FreeBASIC, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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VxWorks

VxWorks is the original product of Wind River. It is a real-time operating system intended for embedded devices. It runs on many architectures, and supports features such as SMP, IPv6, TIPC and memory protection.

Wind River Linux

Wind River’s Linux product is source code and a build system that generate runtime images suitable for embedded devices. It supports a variety of architectures, including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, IA32 and SPARC.

In 2004, Wind River announced a partnership with Red Hat to create a new Linux-based distribution for embedded devices. Wind River has since ended its partnership with Red Hat and now ships its own Linux distribution optimized for embedded Linux development.

Wind River released the first version of its embedded Linux distribution, Platform for Network Equipment – Linux Edition (PNE-LE) 1.0 in 2005. It was registered against the Carrier Grade Linux 2.0 specification and supported IA32 and PPC architectures. They added other platforms in subsequent releases, General Purpose Platform – Linux Edition (GPP-LE) and Platform for Consumer Devices – Linux Edition PCD-LE) starting in version 1.4.

On March 16, 2009, Wind River announced Wind River Linux 3.0.

On February 20, 2007, FSMLabs’ embedded market was acquired by Wind River Systems. Wind River maintains the free versions of RTLinux [http://www.rtlinuxfree.com/] previously offered by FSMLabs; and Wind River committed to continue to offer the FSMLab approach to RTLinux as part of their product line rebranded as Wind River Real-Time Core for Wind River Linux.

On August 7, 2007, Palm Inc. announced that it had chosen Wind River Systems as the software solution for its (later aborted) Palm Foleo.

In 2008, Wind River announced cooperation with BMW and Intel for development of a Linux-based open-source platform to control in-car electronics.

BSD/OS

Wind River acquired the software assets of Berkeley Software Design Inc. (BSDI) in 2001. These comprised the BSD/OS operating system, plus involvement in the FreeBSD open source project.. The FreeBSD unit was divested as a separate entity in 2002 as FreeBSD Mall, Inc..

Faced with competition from the open source FreeBSD and Linux-based operating systems, Wind River discontinued BSD/OS in December 2003. However, by this time some technology from BSD/OS had been contributed to the open source BSD community.

Wind River (Diab) Compiler

Wind River acquired the Diab Compiler as part of its acquisition of Integrated Systems Inc. Originally designed by Wind River’s current CTO, Tomas Evensen, it is now available as part of Wind River’s VxWorks platforms. It can also be licensed separately for non-VxWorks users. The compiler supports PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, SH, ColdFire, Tricore, Intel and mcore architectures.

Tilcon Graphics Suite

Tilcon Software Limited was acquired by Wind River in 2009. The Tilcon software consists of a graphical user interface builder – a tool that runs on a Windows or Linux host – and a GUI engine that run on an embedded processor that renders graphics through a number of different standard graphics libraries. The Tilcon software supports VxWorks, Linux and Windows operating systems.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Wind River Systems, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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Gentoo Linux was initially created by Daniel Robbins as the ”Enoch Linux” distribution. The goal was to create a distribution without precompiled binaries that was tuned to the hardware and only included required programs. At least one version of Enoch was distributed: version 0.75, in December 1999.

Compilation issues revealed problems with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), used to build from source code. Daniel Robbins and the other contributors experimented with a fork of GCC known as EGCS developed by Cygnus Solutions. At this point, Enoch changed name to Gentoo Linux (the Gentoo species is the fastest swimming penguin). The modifications to EGCS eventually became part of the official GCC (version 2.95), and other Linux distributions experienced similar speed increases.

After problems with a bug on his own system, Robbins halted Gentoo Linux development and switched to FreeBSD for several months, later saying “I decided to add several FreeBSD features to make our autobuild system (now called Portage) a true next-generation ports system.”

Gentoo Linux 1.0 was released March 31, 2002. In 2004, Robbins set up the non-profit Gentoo Foundation, transferred all copyrights and trademarks to it, and stepped down as Chief Architect of the project.

The current Board of Trustees is composed of five members who were announced (following an election) on March 2, 2008. There is also a seven-member Gentoo Council that oversees the technical issues and policies of Gentoo. The Gentoo Council members are elected for a period of one year, each year by the active Gentoo developers. When a member of the Council retires, the next in line person is voted into place by the existing Council members.

The Gentoo Foundation is a 501(c)(6) non-profit foundation, registered in the State of New Mexico. In late 2007, the Foundation’s charter was revoked. As of May 19, 2008, the State of New Mexico declared that the Gentoo Foundation, Inc. has returned to good standing and is free to do business.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Gentoo Linux, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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Because MTP/IP uses proprietary algorithms, compatible software must be installed on both ends of a communication path. Use of the UDP packet format permits compatibility with standard Internet Protocol (IP) network hardware and software. MTP/IP applications may use any available UDP port number.

MTP and the applications which use it have been implemented for several operating systems, including versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, and AIX. Hardware platforms include variations of x86, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, MIPS64, PA-RISC and POWER.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Multipurpose Transaction Protocol, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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One of the goals of Smalltalk YX is to be very portable and to have the image to be compatible to all kind of systems. Currently tested platforms include:

* Debian GNU/Linux (x64)

* Gentoo Linux (x86, x64)

* Slackware Linux 12.0

* Foresight Linux 1.4.1

* Arch Linux 2007.08-2

* Solaris 2.10 and 11 (SPARC, x86-64)

* FreeBSD 6.1

* Linux From Scratch 64-bit

* Windows 98, XP, Vista

* Windows CE (Pocket PC, Smartphone)

* Mac OS X (PowerPC, x86)

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Smalltalk YX, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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Lazarus is a free cross-platform IDE which provides a Delphi-mimic development experience for Pascal and Object Pascal developers. It is developed for, and supported by, the Free Pascal compiler. , Lazarus is available for Microsoft Windows, several Linux distributions, FreeBSD, as well as Mac OS X.

The Lazarus project has an active community and a vigorous development process, with many contributors and development testers. The community solves the problems using a discussion board, and programmers submit fixes for issues raised on the board. Each night, untested builds are generated for beta testing.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Lazarus (software), under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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