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BSD  News FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD Release 3.3
Posted: ( Thu 16th Sep 1999 03:52:16[PM] UTC )
FreeBSD 3.3 has been releases with many bug fixes and
general enhancements.
FreeBSD : News : Even better than Linux
Posted: ( Thu 16th Sep 1999 03:45:51[PM] UTC )
Trio of operating systems based on BSD is even more reliable and secure.
FreeBSD : News : Beyond Linux, Free Systems Help Build The Web
Posted: ( Sat 11th Sep 1999 02:25:01[PM] UTC )
To serve nearly 80 million people each month, Yahoo! Inc. operates about 1,000 computers that run on FreeBSD.
FreeBSD : News : The Real FreeBSD
Posted: ( Wed 1st Sep 1999 04:04:48[PM] UTC )
There are a number of common misconceptions about FreeBSD in non-BSD circles. Many of these misconceptions were voiced recently on the Linux oriented news site, Slashdot. This article clears some of these misconceptions in the hope to attract new users and prevent the spread of misinformation about FreeBSD.
FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD, 'the other Linux,' takes a different approach to free software
Posted: ( Sun 29th Aug 1999 03:34:48[PM] UTC )
A good article comparing FreeBSD with Linux.
FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD Con '99
Posted: ( Fri 20th Aug 1999 03:43:37[PM] UTC )
First annual FreeBSD conference and expo to be held at Berkley, California from October 17-21, 1999.
FreeBSD : News : BSD a better OS than Linux?
Posted: ( Fri 23rd Jul 1999 05:22:13[PM] UTC )
Is BSD a better alternative to Linux?
FreeBSD : News : World's busiest FTP server sets new traffic record -- 1.39 TB in one day!
Posted: ( Mon 24th May 1999 05:05:32[AM] UTC )
wcarchive.cdrom.com, the world's busiest FTP server, set a new record for traffic on May 24th, when it served
1.39 Terabytes of data to the world over the 24 hour period ending that morning. The high traffic is largely due to the recent releases of RedHat 6.0
and Slackware 4.0, which are mirrored on the server. wcarchive is a FreeBSD system on a Micron Pentium-III Xeon 500, and has long been a shining
example of FreeBSD's "rock hard stability."
FreeBSD : News : FreeBSD 'Zine April Issue
Posted: ( Sat 3rd Apr 1999 12:23:20[PM] UTC )
The April issue (#4) of the FreeBSD 'zine was put up on the 1st. Features this month include
tutorials on shell scripting and vi, a benchmark comparison between BSD and Linux, and a
continuation of the series on qmail.
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BSD
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FAQ
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Description
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BSD is a direct descendant of the Unix operating system. BSD stands for
Berkeley Software design and dates back to work done by Sun Microsystems
co-founder Bill Joy to create the first free version of Unix when he was at
Berkeley in the late 1970s. Later a group of Berkeley computer scientists
added to his work, eventually beginning a project called 386BSD designed
to rewrite Unix so it could be used on a PC with Intel chips. After Berkeley
stopped funding the effort, BSD split off in several directions. AT&T also
caused a lot of problems for BSD in 1993 when they hit BSD with a copyright
lawsuit. BSD recovered and runs most of the high traffic sites on the Internet.
Unlike Linux, BSD is targeted more towards the server.
FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system for the Intel compatible
(x86), DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. FreeBSD's claim to fame is
robust networking which makes it ideal Internet or Intranet server.
The NetBSD project has been to make the base OS extremely portable. This
has resulted in NetBSD being ported to a large number of hardware platforms.
Another derivative, OpenBSD, is supposed to be the most secure operating
system in the world.
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See OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD for development status.
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