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Website: http://www.freebsd.org Latest version: 6.1 - 2006-5-8
FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon™), amd64 compatible (including Opteron™, Athlon 64, and EM64T), UltraSPARC®, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
FreeBSD is constructed using FreeSBIE 2.
The FreeBSD Boot Process is covered in a separate article.
FreeBSD 4.11 : An advanced operating system derived from BSD UNIX.
Voyage : A Linux distribution for embedded platforms based on Debian Sarge.
NetBSD : A highly portable derivative of BSD UNIX.
OpenBSD : A very secure derivative of BSD UNIX.
FreeBSD 4 is faster for networking but has less supported hardware and is superceded with FreeBSD 5, 6, 7. Voyage Linux is incredibly fast to get running but requires more space as it uses standard Debian packages rather than dietlibc or ulibc versions. It also does not have circular logging and will require some modification to be managed by a web interface and configured from a single file. NetBSD and OpenBSD do not have sufficiently friendly tools like FreeSBIE to aid generation of an ISO or HDD complete image.
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