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world's network connected machines run Linux. 14.6% run BSD &unix;. |
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world's network connected machines run Linux. 14.6% run BSD &unix;. |
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Some of the world's largest web operations, such as <ulink |
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url="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</ulink>, run BSD. The world's |
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url="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</ulink>, run BSD. The world's |
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busiest FTP server, <ulink |
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url="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/">ftp.cdrom.com</ulink>, uses BSD to |
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transfer 1.4 TB of data a day. Clearly this is not a niche |
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market: BSD is a well-kept secret.</para> |
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<para>The X Window system, which handles graphical display.</para> |
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<para>The X Window system used in most versions of BSD is maintained |
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This is the same code as Linux uses. BSD does not normally |
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though these are available.</para> |
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<para>No one person or corporation owns BSD. It is created and |
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distributed by a community of highly technical and committed |
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contributors all over the world. Some of the components of BSD are |
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contributors all over the world. Some of the components of BSD are |
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Open Source projects managed by a different project maintainer.</para> |
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<para>The BSD kernels are developed and updated following the Open |
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Source development model. Each project maintains a publicly |
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accessible <emphasis>source tree</emphasis> under the |
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<ulink url="http://www.sourcegear.com/CVS/">Concurrent Versions |
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project, including documentation and other incidental files. CVS |
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allows users to <quote>check out</quote> (in other words, to |
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<para>No one person controls the content of the system. In |
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practice, this difference is overrated, since the Chief Architect |
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several people are permitted to make changes.</para> |
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<para>FreeBSD aims for high performance and ease of use by |
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end users, and is a favourite of web content providers. It runs |
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end users, and is a favourite of web content providers. It runs |
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on PCs and Compaq's Alpha processors. The FreeBSD project has |
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systems based on the AMD 64-bit processors, &ultrasparc; based systems, |
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the NEC PC-98 specification. The FreeBSD project has |
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significantly more users than the other projects.</para> |
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