Hi All, Lots of information.
Usually the first thing comes to mind when you use open source o/s we think of Linux. I suggest twincling to conduct a TSM on BSD which would be useful to all members. Thanks Sridhar On 12/26/07, Saifi Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all: > > As this year comes to an end and the next one is ready to herald > Open Source to yet another level of glory, it is a good time to pause > and reflect on what some of the Open Source geeks had to say few years > ago. > > In 1999, Marshall Kirk McKusick wrote an essay titled 'Twenty Years of > Berkeley Unix' that talks about the innovation and how BSD happened. > > Please take a look at > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html > > FreeBSD 7.0 will be released to the world in another two weeks. > > BSD pioneered core Operating system features and has a history > of innovation for the last 25+ years. > > The TCP/IP stack as we know it was first implemented by BSD. > The concept of fsck, soft updates in a file system were designed > and implemented by Marshall Kirk McKusick many years before > these features became common in UNIX. > > Does anybody use BSD ? > > Have you heard of Nokia ? Juniper ? Xtreme Networks ? ... > Most of the appliance vendors have product lines based on BSD. > Yahoo uses BSD, Hotmail used to run on BSD etc. > > There are variants of BSD like FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, > PicoBSD and PC-BSD. > > Each of the BSD versions has a unique offering for the customer. > > FreeBSD > Large number of packages, java-jre support, rich file system support > for x86, x86_64 systems. Used as internet servers. > > NetBSD > When you want the same kernel code base to work on the largest number > of hardware platforms. Very well designed support for PCI, PCI-X > among others. > > OpenBSD > When you are paranoid about security and want a system that is > designed for security. Each piece of code that gets into the kernel > is subjected to code review from a security perspective. > > DragonFlyBSD > Led by Mathew Dillon, BSD designed for scalability and uses message > passing semantics within the kernel design. > > PicoBSD > When you want to fit your OS installation into a single 1.44MB floppy > > PC-BSD > When you want to run a powerful, stable OS with a intuitive and easy > to use to Desktop environment. > > What also makes *BSD unique among its Open Source OS peers is the > professional documentation that comes along aka. the *BSD Handbook > > Want to know more, What can FreeBSD do ? > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nutshell.html > > Have a nice day ! > > -- > thanks > Saifi. > >
