FreeBSD
<operating system> A free
operating system based on the BSD 4.4-lite release from Computer Systems Research Group at the
University of California at Berkeley.
FreeBSD requires an
ISA,
EISA,
VESA, or
PCI based computer with an
Intel 80386SX to
Pentium CPU (or compatible
AMD or
Cyrix CPU) with 4 megabytes of
RAM and 60MB of disk space.
Some of FreeBSD's features are: preemptive multitasking with dynamic priority adjustment to ensure smooth and fair sharing of the computer between applications and users.
Multiuser access - peripherals such as printers and tape drives can be shared between all users.
Complete
TCP/IP networking including
SLIP,
PPP,
NFS and
NIS.
Memory protection, demand-paged virtual memory with a merged
VM/buffer cache design.
FreeBSD was designed as a 32 bit operating system.
X Window System (X11R6) provides a
graphical user interface.
Binary compatibility with many programs built for
SCO,
BSDI, NetBSD,
386BSD, and
Linux.
Hundreds of ready-to-run applications in the FreeBSD ports collection.
FreeBSD is source code compatible with most popular commercial
Unix systems and thus most applications require few, if any, changes to compile.
Shared libraries.
A full compliment of
C,
C++,
Fortran and
Perl development tools and many other languages.
Source code for the entire system is available.
Extensive on-line documentation.
Home (http://www.freebsd.org/).
(ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD) or try your nearest
mirror site listed at the home site or buy the
CD-ROM from Walnut Creek.
