FreeBSD 4.10 - A stable, secure, Open Source operating system.

[Gordon Darling]

FreeBSD 4.10

A stable, secure, Open Source operating system.

About:
Briefly, FreeBSD is a UNIX operating system based on U.C. Berkeley's
4.4BSD-lite release for the i386 platform (and recently the alpha
platform). It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C.
Berkeley's Net/2 to the i386, known as 386BSD, though very little of the
386BSD code remains. A fuller description of what FreeBSD is and how it
can work for you may be found on the FreeBSD home page.

Changes:
This release will become the first "Errata Branch". Release branches for
previous versions would only have critical security fixes applied. Now,
the scope of fixes will be expanded to include local denial of service
fixes, as well as other significant and well-tested fixes that may not
represent security issues.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements
License: BSD License (original)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freebsd/

Homepage: http://www.FreeBSD.org
Tar/GZ:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/freebsd/2848/url_tgz/4.10
Tar/BZ2:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/freebsd/2848/url_bz2/4.10-RELEASE

Regards
Gordon

 

[rach]

For the longest time my server was FreeBSD, but I switched to Windows2000.
I'm thinking I might switch back soon.

Rach
http://scootergirl.cjb.net/

 

[Gordon Darling]

For the longest time my server was FreeBSD, but I switched to Windows2000.
I'm thinking I might switch back soon.

Why? "If it ain't broke don't fix it" as they say. I know MS will try to
push you on to Server 2003 since shifting product is what they want but
they have extended support for 2000 and it's probably the best OS that
Microsoft has produced (so far).

Regards
Gordon

 

[Phred]

G'day Gordon (and others?),

Just a question out of curiosity -- how does FreeBSD compare with the
various flavours of Linux? Will most "Unix" apps run equally well (or
badly on both, or does FreeBSD have an edge here?

As a corollary, which (FreeBSD or Linux) is compatible with the
greatest range of "free" quality apps in the Unix/Linux world?

Thanks for your time.

FreeBSD 4.10 - A stable, secure, Open Source operating system.
About:
Briefly, FreeBSD is a UNIX operating system based on U.C. Berkeley's
4.4BSD-lite release for the i386 platform (and recently the alpha
platform). It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C.
Berkeley's Net/2 to the i386, known as 386BSD, though very little of the
386BSD code remains. A fuller description of what FreeBSD is and how it
can work for you may be found on the FreeBSD home page.

Changes:
This release will become the first "Errata Branch". Release branches for
previous versions would only have critical security fixes applied. Now,
the scope of fixes will be expanded to include local denial of service
fixes, as well as other significant and well-tested fixes that may not
represent security issues.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements
License: BSD License (original)
Project URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freebsd/
Homepage: http://www.FreeBSD.org
Tar/GZ:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/freebsd/2848/url_tgz/4.10
Tar/BZ2:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/freebsd/2848/url_bz2/4.10-RELEASE

Cheers, Phred.

 

[Gordon Darling]

G'day Gordon (and others?),

Just a question out of curiosity -- how does FreeBSD compare with the
various flavours of Linux? Will most "Unix" apps run equally well (or
badly on both, or does FreeBSD have an edge here?

As a corollary, which (FreeBSD or Linux) is compatible with the
greatest range of "free" quality apps in the Unix/Linux world?

Thanks for your time.

Aaah, flamebait! Religous wars time <grin>.

Without treading on too many toes.

There is a difference in design and "political" philosophy between the
BSDs and Linux and not just in the licensing.

The best source for a good long read on FreeBSD is the Free BSD handbook.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

Free BSD will run most (say around 85% of linux binaries out of the box).
And most source tarballs will compile on both Linux/BSD with a bit of
tweaking.

See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

FreeBSD and NetBSD are both strong, solid operating systems, but are less
"cutting edge" than say Mandrake Linux. They make for very stable servers
though.

Regards
Gordon