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A Brief History of FreeBSD
What FreeBSD Is
FreeBSD's Project Goals |
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FreeBSD was started in 1993, and gathered its sources from 386BSD and because of concerns about the legality of all the sources used in 386BSD, FreeBSD re-developed much of the system with the FreeBSD 2.0 release in January 1995 using the 4.4BSD-Lite release from the University of California, Berkeley.
What FreeBSD Is
FreeBSD is an open source operating system that is free and came from Unix by the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through 386BSD and 4.4BSD. It is a more well known unix based operating system which is developed by one group; userland utilities by others such as the GNU project as a kernel then put together as a package with all the parts together by others. It runs on processors compatible with the Intel x86 family, as well as on the DEC Alpha, the UltraSPARC processors by Sun Microsystems, the Itanium (IA-64) and AMD64 processors.
Held in the same source code revision tracking tree (CVS) is the shell and the device drivers, all of the expected userland utilities and the kernel. FreeBSD is regarded as being quite robust and reliable for an operating system and is the only free operating system listed in Netcraft's longest uptime list for webservers.
(http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html)
FreeBSD's Project Goals
Here are FreeBSD's project Goals:
*To provide software that may be used for any purpose and without legal
Restrictions:
*Appreciate donations but they are not required
*To provide code to anybody for any purpose so the code is used to its
full potential
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