FreeBSD
Briefly, FreeBSD is a UNIX operating system based on U.C. Berkeley's 4.4BSD-lite release for the i386 platform (and recently the alpha platform). It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's Net/2 to the i386, known as 386BSD, though very little of the 386BSD code remains. A fuller description of what FreeBSD is and how it can work for you may be found on the FreeBSD home page.
| Tags | Operating Systems |
|---|---|
| Licenses | BSD Original |
Recent releases
- 19 Apr 2012 08:29
Release Notes: usb(4) now supports the USB packet filter. The TCP/IP stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion control framework. A graid(8) GEOM class was added to support various BIOS-based software RAID controllers (replacement for ataraid(4)). The ZFS subsystem was updated to SPA version 28. GNOME version 2.32.1 and KDE version 4.7.4 were included.
- 18 Feb 2012 02:41
Release Notes: A new installer, bsdinstall(8), was provided. The Fast Filesystem now supports soft updates journaling. ZFS was updated to version 28. ATA/SATA drivers were updated to support AHCI and moved into an updated CAM framework. A Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework was added. Kernel support for was provided for Capsicum Capability Mode, an experimental set of features for sandboxing support. User-level DTrace was included. The TCP/IP stack now supports pluggable congestion control frameworks, and five congestion control algorithm implementations are available.
- 14 Jun 2009 13:21
Release Notes: The FreeBSD virtual memory subsystem now supports fully transparent use of superpages for application memory. The boot(8) BTX loader has been improved. Many network interface drivers have been improved. The btpand(8) daemon from NetBSD has been added. This daemon provides support for Bluetooth Network Access Point (NAP), Group Ad-hoc Network (GN), and Personal Area Network User (PANU) profiles. The jail(8) subsystem has been greatly enhanced with support for multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses per jail, SCTP support, CPU binding, and more.
- 14 Apr 2008 00:49
Release Notes: Improvements were made in performance and SMP scalability. The ULE scheduler, ZFS, and UFS2 journaling were improved. Many other features and improvements were added.
- 11 May 2006 21:53
No changes have been submitted for this release.
Recent comments
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is the most exiting, stable and well organized OS I have ever woked on, I use it for everything:
As a platform for web aplications, as a workstation etc.
It has prooved to have good documentation, zounds of software, both native and running on top of emulators.
I realy adore this OS!
FreeBSD is great!
I've been using FreeBSD for about 3 years now, switching from SuSE GNU/Linux.
I was using GNU/Linux since '96 and ever since I have switched to FreeBSD I have liked the way it's structured.
Their ports collection really gives one notice of how true UNIX porting is like and also gives you more power to discover truely what goes on underneath all of the gui stuff that's going around now-a-days.
I have learned tremendously over the years through using GNU/Linux and FreeBSD...just little bits at a time.
May you enjoy your journey as well.
gooober
FreeBSD is great !
This is how every Linux/Unix-based operating system should look like! I'm very impressed. I like the well-structured package management, the huge port collection, the OS-emulations (Solaris, Linux etc) and the stability (which I missed while using Linux). The guys are doing great work.
notice
I suggest to begginer BSD users not to bother with FreeBSD 4.0-snapshot, a bit too unstable. You would come off better with version 3.2. The snapshot version right now is basically for developers.
arvedarved
11 May 1999 20:24
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