FreeBSD

operating system A free operating system based on the BSD4.4-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. Memoryprotection, demand-paged virtual memory with a merged

VM/buffer cache design. FreeBSD was designed as a 32 bitoperating 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. Sharedlibraries. A full compliment of C, C++, Fortran and

Perl development tools and many other languages. Sourcecode for the entire system is available. Extensive on-line

documentation.

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(1998-11-24)