No April Foolery: The Portable C Compiler version 1.0 was released on April 1st!

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Portable C Compiler 1.0 Released
The original portable C programming language compiler reaches significant milestone thanks to community donations
Portland, Oregon, USA – April 1st, 2011 – BSD Fund, a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and Swedish developer Anders Magnusson are pleased to announced the much-anticipated 1.0 release of the Portable C Compiler. First developed in the 1970's, the Portable C Compiler or "pcc" revolutionized multi-platform software development and provided a de facto platform for the majority of other compilers of the era. BSD Fund turned to the community to raise the funds necessary to bring modern amenities like AMD64 support and improved GCC compatibility to pcc, both of which are showcased in this historic release. Famous for its elegant simplicity, the Portable C Compiler fills an important academic and professional niche in relationship to the fuller-featured LLVM and GCC compilers.
"No April Foolery: It's here! As with so many things BSD, this project proves that good code is timeless and can benefit from literally generations of review. Anders has worked hard maintaining pcc and it has been an honor to help him truly resurrect it by adding support for the popular AMD64 architecture. With a little more help, pcc should run on the key mobile platforms we all carry today. Portability never goes out of style and pcc's permissive licensing makes it attractive to the widest possible audience." said Michael Dexter, BSD Fund Program Manager
"I am excited about this release and am very impressed with the community support for the project through bug reports, patches and funding. This is a truly wonderful community." said Anders Magnusson, pcc Maintainer
About BSD Fund

BSD Fund is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to assist and fund BSD-related events, development and initiatives around the world. BSD Fund raises money through direct donations and the BSD Fund Visa that supports BSD with every purchase.
Visit http://www.bsdfund.org for more information
About BSD

The Berkeley Software Distribution family of operating systems, network technologies and utilities were born out of a research partnership between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the University of California, Berkley Computer Science Research Group (CSRG). This pioneering research between 1977 and 1995 was transferred to the global Internet community for continued development and has produced de facto software that has been used in virtually every computer operating system including Microsoft Windows, Apple's Mac OS X and Google's Android. BSD software was also the original building block of the internet and continues to play a fundamental role to its operation to this day.
The Berkeley Software Distribution is also known for its permissive copyright which permits the duplication and modification of the software with few restrictions. The family of "BSD" software licenses that have evolved out of this work are appreciated for their simplicity and wide commercial and non-commercial applicability.
The most popular BSD operating systems are:
DragonFly BSD – http://www.dragonflybsd.org FreeBSD – http://www.freebsd.org NetBSD – http://www.netbsd.org OpenBSD – http://www.openbsd.org
For more information contact BSD Fund Program Director Michael Dexter: [email protected] – 503-789-8978

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$14,400 in NYCBSDCon 2010 Proceeds Donated To BSD Projects

Proceeds from prominent New York City BSD event are invested in the BSD open source operating systems
New York City, USA – March 7th, 2011 – The New York City *BSD User Group (NYC*BUG) and BSD Fund are proud to announce that today the final payments have cleared of the $14,400 in proceeds from November's New York City BSD Conference given to the DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD projects. BSD Fund, the fiscal backer of the event, issued four equal payments of $3,600 to the four open source computer operating system development efforts as per the tradition of the conference. The NYCBSDCon 2010 fiscal sponsorship represents the first partnership between NYC*BUG and BSD Fund and sets an important precedent for future NYC*BUG events and beyond.
"The NYCBSDCon organizers are proud that we not only brought 150 people from around the world together to discuss their favorite operating systems but also provided solid financial support for the further development of these great systems." said one NYCBUG organizer
"It was a pleasure to work with the NYCBSDCon organizers from day one and I am very impressed with what they have achieved as a volunteer-driven user group. They organize top-quality monthly meetings, host a number of projects and mirrors with their co-located data center cabinet and of course pulled-off another great NYCBSDCon. NYCBSDCon 2006 was my BSD conference and it helped inspire the formation of BSD Fund. BSD Fund's pcc project was also inspired by a BSD Talk interview from NYCBSDCon 2008." said Michael Dexter, BSD Fund Program Manager
About NYCBSDCon

The first New York City BSD Conference took place in 2005 and has grown to become one of the top BSD-related conferences in the world. Held every two years, it attracts top BSD-related speakers, developers and users from around the world. NYCBSDCon 2010 was held in Manhattan's stunning 41 Cooper Square building at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and was made possible with the help of generous sponsors including About.com, New York Internet, Isilon Systems, Marvell and iXsystems. The next NYCBSDCon is scheduled to take place in the fall of 2012.
Visit http://www.nycbsdcon.org for more information
About NYC*BUG

The New York City *BSD User Group or "nice bug" is an informal group of BSD users that began meeting in 2003. Their meetings are open to the public and as suggested by the asterisk in the name, are open to all BSD variants. NYC*BUG offers project hosting and mirroring thanks to space and bandwidth generously donated by New York Internet.
Visit http://www.nycbug.org for more information
About BSD Fund

BSD Fund is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to assist and fund BSD-related events, development and initiatives around the world. BSD Fund raises money through direct donations and the BSD Fund Visa that supports BSD with every purchase. BSD Fund provided NYCBSDCon 2010 full fiscal sponsorship from the receipt of donations and registration fees through dispersal of the proceeds to the leading BSD projects.
Visit http://www.bsdfund.org for more information
About BSD

The Berkeley Software Distribution family of operating systems, network technologies and utilities were born out of a research partnership between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the University of California, Berkley Computer Science Research Group (CSRG). This pioneering research between 1977 and 1995 was transferred to the global Internet community for continued development and has produced de facto software that has been used in virtually every computer operating system including Microsoft Windows, Apple's Mac OS X and Google's Android. BSD software was also the original building block of the internet and continues to play a fundamental role to its operation to this day.
The Berkeley Software Distribution is also known for its permissive copyright which permits the duplication and modification of the software with few restrictions. The family of "BSD" software licenses that have evolved out of this work are appreciated for their simplicity and wide commercial and non-commercial applicability.
The most popular BSD operating systems are:
DragonFly BSD – http://www.dragonflybsd.org FreeBSD – http://www.freebsd.org NetBSD – http://www.netbsd.org OpenBSD – http://www.openbsd.org
For more information contact BSD Fund Program Director Michael Dexter: [email protected] – 503-789-8978

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