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Press Releases
Piscataway, NJ, and San Francisco,
CA, June 1, 2004: The IEEE and The Open Group have
granted permission to the FreeBSD Project to incorporate material
from the joint IEEE 1003.1™ POSIX® standard and
The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6.
This step will allow developers of the FreeBSD Platform to
gain a better understanding of how to write portable programs
utilizing IEEE 1003.1, “Standard for Information Technology:
Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)”. The POSIX
standard, which also forms the core volumes of Version 3 of
The Open Group’s Single UNIX® Specification, defines
a set of fundamental services needed for the construction
of portable application programs. IEEE and The Open Group
have granted permissions for reuse of material covering over
1400 interfaces from the standard including the headers, system
interfaces and utilities.
“Conforming to operating systems standards, and particularly
POSIX, has been a high priority for us,” said Jacques
Vidrine, Security Officer with the FreeBSD Project. “We
want FreeBSD to be an excellent target for portable applications,
as well as a favored platform for developing standards-compliant
software. Thanks to the generosity of the IEEE and The Open
Group, we will be able to incorporate the POSIX documentation,
giving system and application developers the accurate and
complete information needed to create great software and avoid
portability pitfalls.”
“We’re seeing a good uptake of the latest standard
within the software development community and are very pleased
to assist community efforts such as the FreeBSD Project,”
said Andrew Josey, Director of Certification at The Open Group
and Chair of the Austin Group.
FreeBSD is a widely used, high-performance network-centric
open source operating system derived from BSD 4.4 Lite. It
was developed and is maintained by a large team of individuals
worldwide who are referred to as the FreeBSD Project. FreeBSD
is distributed under the Berkeley open source license, which
encourages broad commercial and non-commercial re-use in both
open and closed source products. FreeBSD is used across a
broad spectrum of products, from embedded storage and network
appliances to the foundation for commercial workstation and
server operating systems. Further information about FreeBSD
can be found at: http://www.freebsd.org/
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral
consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™
will enable access to integrated information within and between
enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability.
The Open Group works with customers, suppliers, consortia
and other standard bodies. Its role is to capture, understand
and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies
and share best practices; to facilitate interoperability,
develop consensus, and evolve and integrate specifications
and open source technologies; to offer a comprehensive set
of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia;
and to operate the industry’s premier certification
service, including UNIX certification.
The IEEE Standards Association, a globally recognized standards-setting
body, develops consensus standards through an open process
that brings diverse parts of an industry together. These standards
set specifications and procedures to ensure that products
and services are fit for their purpose and perform as intended.
The IEEE-SA has a portfolio of more than 870 completed standards
and more than 400 standards in development. Over 15,000 IEEE
members worldwide belong to IEEE-SA and voluntarily participate
in standards activities. For further information on IEEE-SA
see: http://www.standards.ieee.org/.
The IEEE has more than 360,000 members in approximately 175
countries. Through its members, the organization is a leading
authority on areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications
to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics. The
IEEE produces nearly 30 percent of the world's literature
in electrical and electronics engineering and in computer
science. This nonprofit organization also sponsors or cosponsors
more than 300 technical conferences each year. Additional
information about the IEEE can be found at http://www.ieee.org.
Notes to editors:
The Open Group is a trademark of The Open Group.
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US
and other countries.
POSIX is a registered trademark of the IEEE, Inc.
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