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Review: FreeBSD 6.0 (NewsForge)
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FreeBSD 6.0. "For software that's been around since the late
'70s, before any of today's more popular operating systems, open source
BSDs (in their current avatars) don't get their due share of hard
disks. FreeBSD, one of the first BSD flavors to emerge from the 386BSD
project, is a Unix-like free operating system based originally on the BSD
branch of 386BSD and later 4.4BSD-Lite. This makes BSD's more like
traditional Unixes than Linux. Late last year FreeBSD unleashed release
6.0, with better support for 64-bit and wireless hardware."
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Review: FreeBSD 6.0 (NewsForge) Posted Jan 19, 2006 20:23 UTC (Thu) by cventers (subscriber, #31465) [Link] It's not much of a review. He sort of goes on for half a page about theinstall process and then closes saying: > FreeBSD has advantages and disadvantages. Its biggest advantage is that > it is a complete OS, in which everything is maintained by the > developers who build the kernel. Consequently, the security of the > kernel goes right through the core system utilities to the top. > > Organizations such as Yahoo!, Trend Micro, About.com, Juniper Networks, > Pair Networks, Cisco, and Nokia have already deployed FreeBSD for their > own use. FreeBSD has proved itself to be a secure, stable, and complete > OS. He also claims Linux doesn't support UFS, which it has since 2.6.5.
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