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FreeBSD Syed Khader Vali

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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FreeBSD Syed Khader Vali

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  1. FreeBSD Syed Khader Vali

  2. Agenda FreeBSD – A Brief History Development Model Features Installation Ports Collection Linux – Similarities and Differences Drawbacks

  3. 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

  4. Development Model CVS Repository Committers FreeBSD Core Team Outside contributors Mailing lists IRC

  5. 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

  6. Installation Similar to Slackware Installation Partitioning

  7. Ports Collection Vast collection of packages Includes linux packages Download source and install

  8. FreeBSD and Linux Similarities Userland Differences Kernel Concept of base and ports Lesser hardware support compared to Linux Development model Core members

  9. More Information http://freebsd.org/ http://freebsd.org/handbook/ http://linux.org

  10. Q & A

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