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BSD  Reviews FreeBSD : Reviews : FreeBSD 5.2 Lacks Polishing In Some Areas but Rules in Others
Posted: ( Fri 30th Jan 2004 03:32:51[PM] UTC )
FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE is the third major 5.x release for the next generation of the FreeBSD Unix system (release notes). For the last few years I only used the 4.x stable releases, waiting for a mature 5.x release to come out before trying it. I felt that the time had come with 5.2, but has it?
FreeBSD : Reviews : FreeBSD 5.1
Posted: ( Wed 22nd Oct 2003 04:57:11[PM] UTC )
There are several players in the Unix world, but few are as complete and refined as FreeBSD. It installs easily, scales well, updates without a hassle and holds Netcraft records for uptime.
FreeBSD : Reviews : Is FreeBSD a superior server platform?
Posted: ( Thu 21st Dec 2000 01:11:40[AM] UTC )
"For speed and security, FreeBSD is the way to go. In no way am I trying to say that Red Hat, or Linux, is inferior. Linux has very good desktop uses, and works well in some server situations. But, the FreeBSD 4.x tree is by far the fastest OS running on Intel hardware that I've ever seen."
FreeBSD : Reviews : FreeBSD 4.2
Posted: ( Thu 7th Dec 2000 09:05:30[PM] UTC )
FreeBSD 4.2 is a great addition to the series, but it may not be an essential upgrade for users running 4.0 or higher. If you haven't tried FreeBSD yet, there's no better time to try, as it is gaining momentum, which this release indicates.
FreeBSD : Reviews : Open-sourcing the Apple
Posted: ( Fri 17th Nov 2000 07:08:39[PM] UTC )
Is OS X just another fancy GUI-based operating desktop system like Windows or is it a more industrially useful server-centric operating system like FreeBSD or Linux-based OS's?
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BSD
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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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