BSD stands for
<quote>Berkeley Software Distribution
</quote>. It is the name of distributions of source code from the University of California, Berkeley, which were originally extensions to AT
&T's Research
<trademark class="registered">UNIX
</trademark> operating system. Several open source operating system projects are based on a release of this source code known as 4.4BSD-Lite. In addition, they comprise a number of packages from other Open Source projects, including notably the GNU project. The overall operating system comprises: