Why to use FreeBSD

The FreeBSD operating system is an unknown giant in the free operating system. Starting with the 386BSD project, the FreeBSD operating system has become an extremely fast, UNIX®-like operating system for Intel chips and their cloned products. FreeBSD replaces the Gnu/linux based operating system in many ways. It runs on outdated Intel machines and 64-bit AMD chips, and it can handle terabytes of files on a daily basis on some of the world's largest file servers.

The history of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of operating systems goes back to the BSD UNIX operating system created and maintained by the University of California Berkeley in the late the 1970s. Today, the BSD series consists of 5 main branches, and the activists who are keen on Linux will marvel at the ever-evolving BSD branches. Since 2001, when the last major branch Dragonfly BSD was released, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Mac OS X represented a new wave of innovation in the UNIX world. All of these operating system branches are POSIX compliant, presenting a similar command-line interface for their users, and using both the kernel and system libraries that make programming patterns as similar to application usage characteristics as possible.

BSD cannot be counted as a Unix system, but the idea that BSD branches represent Open Source Unix has been widely accepted. Surprisingly, none of the free operating systems running on PCs or Macs in the the 1980s and early 90 could be named. UNIX exists on mainframes and scalable processor architectures (scalable Processor architecture, SPARC). The big private UNIX companies have carved up the commercial UNIX market.

The original BSD operating system was 386BSD

The two events of 1993 changed UNIX forever: The NetBSD team was set up and the 386BSD patching tool was again popular. A decade ago, BSD UNIX developers recruited again from all levels of staff at the University of California, Berkeley, and Ph. D. Students, mostly from the Defense Advanced Research Program (Defense Advanced study Projects Agency, DARPA), but the form of fund-raising is over. The 386BSD project was created in 1985 as an attempt to run BSD UNIX on Intel chips. Until 1989, the project had not released its first version, and for a variety of reasons, the project eventually became the reference operating system that Dr. Dobb's Journal July 1992 announced. For 386BSD 0.1, 250,000 downloads are known.

386BSD mainly based on the view of Bill and Lynne Jolitz to improve the concept that UNIX relies on. Their original intention was to develop a free operating system. But it turns out that it is not within their power to support a complete operating system entirely on their own. The system eventually lost to Linux, a programming team made up of obscure Finnish students to help build.

The history of FreeBSD

Another team that initially decided to build BSD UNIX on Intel chips was established in 1993. Relying on the results of Bill Jolitz's previous work, the team launched the FreeBSD version 1.0 in December 1993. At the beginning of 1997, project leader Jordan Hubbard the development of the project and managed the infrastructure and 200 developers. At the end of this year, FreeBSD is expected to launch the 6.0 version, which will become the most important version of all free UNIX systems. FreeBSD is not a clone of Unix, although it works like Unix, and its kernel and system APIs conform to UNIX standards.

FreeBSD is not just a system suitable for INTEL-/AMD, as it used to be. It can also run on SPARC64 computers and has a fairly long running history on the Alpha architecture. If the BSD user is interested in a chip running Mac OS X, then he can switch to the Darwin OS, the open source core of Mac OS X, and Darwin OS relies on most FreeBSD V5.0 and its successors. Of course, NetBSD has been running on all MAC architectures since 1995.

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