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FreeBSD Syed Khader Vali. Agenda. FreeBSD – A Brief History Development Model Features Installation Ports Collection Linux – Similarities and Differences Drawbacks. FreeBSD – A Brief History. Outgrowth of “Unofficial 386BSD Patchkit” Renamed to FreeBSD
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Agenda FreeBSD – A Brief History Development Model Features Installation Ports Collection Linux – Similarities and Differences Drawbacks
FreeBSD – A Brief History Outgrowth of “Unofficial 386BSD Patchkit” Renamed to FreeBSD First Distributor – Walnut Creek CDROM Provides machine and bandwidth too FreeBSD 1.0 released in December 1993 Based on 4.3BSD-Lite Many components from 386BSD and FSF FreeBSD 1.1 – May 1994 Novell/UC Lawsuit FreeBSD 2.0 – Nov 1994
Development Model CVS Repository Committers FreeBSD Core Team Outside contributors Mailing lists IRC
Features Preemptive multitasking Multi-user environment TCP/IP Networking Memory Protection SMP Support Binary Compatibility – Linux, SCO, SVR4, BSDI and NetBSD Package Management Ports Collection Source Code BSD License
Installation Similar to Slackware Installation Partitioning
Ports Collection Vast collection of packages Includes linux packages Download source and install
FreeBSD and Linux Similarities Userland Differences Kernel Concept of base and ports Lesser hardware support compared to Linux Development model Core members
More Information http://freebsd.org/ http://freebsd.org/handbook/ http://linux.org