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FreeBSD Version 10 released
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For 20 years, FreeBSD [1] has been an efficient, secure, and stable open source operating system. Now version 10 has been released with some innovations.
FreeBSD is part of the Unix family, although it is not called Unix for legal reasons. FreeBSD is one of several systems descending from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix system developed at the University of California Berkeley. Although the BSD license is a Free Software license, unlike the GPL, it does not provide a "copyleft" protection that forces developers to make their changes available to the community. For that reason, companies can mix BSD with proprietary code or even take the code out of open source, which is one reason why BSD formed the basis for Mac OS and other proprietary operating systems. Authorities and companies in the fields of technology and IT use FreeBSD as an internal developer and server platform.
FreeBSD upholds the traditional Linux virtues of security and reliability. As an example of the trust that corporations place in FreeBSD, Sony based its PlayStation 4 on FreeBSD 9. Likewise, Juniper relies on FreeBSD as a robust operating system for network routers, and Apple uses parts of FreeBSD for its Mac OS X operating system.
FreeBSD claims to be the most mature Unix-like operating system for x86 servers. In the 1990s, FreeBSD established itself as an operating system for all sizes of web and FTP servers with its speed, reliability, and often years of uptime. This tradition became a commitment and was rarely interrupted.
With multiprocessor and multicore systems asserting themselves in the server segment of the market, the FreeBSD development team had to respond. The FreeBSD 5 kernel published in 2004 was completely remodeled in a time-consuming process for symmetric multiprocessing. This radical redesign led to problems that were largely not remedied until version 7.
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