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<para>Strong <emphasis>TCP/IP networking</emphasis> with |
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support for industry standards such as SLIP, PPP, NFS, DHCP |
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and NIS support. This means that your FreeBSD machine can |
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inter-operate easily with other systems as well act as an |
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enterprise server, providing vital functions such as NFS |
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enterprise server, providing vital functions such as NFS |
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(remote file access) and e-mail services or putting your |
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organization on the Internet with WWW, FTP, routing and |
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<para><emphasis>Source code</emphasis> for the entire system |
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means you have the greatest degree of control over your |
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environment. Why be locked into a proprietary solution and |
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environment. Why be locked into a proprietary solution |
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at the mercy of your vendor when you can have a truly Open |
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<para>The central source tree for FreeBSD is maintained by |
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(Concurrent Version System), a freely available source code |
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control tool that comes bundled with FreeBSD. The primary |
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and server support, transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, |
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integrated DHCP support, an improved SCSI subsystem, ISDN support, |
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support for ATM, FDDI, Fast and Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbit) |
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adapters, improved support for the latest Adaptec controllers and |
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many hundreds of bug fixes.</para> |
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this (constantly evolving) process is especially welcome!</para> |
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ported software collection with hundreds of commonly sought-after |
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programs. By mid-January 2000, there were nearly 3000 ports! The |
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list of ports ranges from http (WWW) servers, to games, languages, |
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editors and almost everything in between. The entire ports |
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compile a port, you simply change to the directory of the program |
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States, which contains the programs that normally use DES. The |
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auxiliary packages provided separately can be used by anyone. A |
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<ulink url="../FAQ/FAQ.html">FreeBSD FAQ</ulink>.</para> |
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FreeBSD's MD5 based security may be all you require! We feel that |
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our default security model is more than a match for DES, and without |
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any messy export issues to deal with. If you are outside (or even |
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