Recently, I interviewed Louis Bertrand, an OpenBSD contributor, on the past and future of OpenBSD, as well as why ISPs might want to deploy it. Here’s what he had to say.

Apple announced the release of Darwin 1.0, the advanced operating system core at the heart of Mac OS X.

Be announced that more than 550,000 copies of BeOS 5 have been downloaded since the free PC operating system became available a week ago.

Soren Jorvang has done a NetBSD port to the Cobalt Networks MIPS-based Qube and RaQ Microservers, which is now available. The machines are originally shipped with a custom version of Linux and now everyone can run his favourite Open Source operating system.

Eclipse is an open source operating system developed by Bell Labs with Quality of Service Support. It is based on FreeBSD version 3.4.

Apple looks set to release version 1.0 of its Darwin open source operating system core real soon now - and for the first time the code will be made available for Intel-based systems.

In association with the availability of the latest release of its flagship product, BeOS 5, Be Incorporated announced that it will offer free access to its source code.

The NetBSD Project is a collective volunteer effort to produce a freely available and redistributable UNIX-like operating system. NetBSD runs on a broad range of hardware platforms, is highly portable, comes with complete source code, and is user-supported.

DragonLinux is a distribution of Linux based on a filesystem called UMSDOS. This allows it to reside on your DOS partition, thus removing the need to repartition your hard drive to install and use Linux.

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