What is FreeBSD?

• FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system for i386/i486/Pentium PCs.
• Features of FreeBSD include:
  • True pre-emptive multitasking.
  • True processes and inter-process protection.
  • Multiuser capability.
  • A complete Berkeley TCP/IP stack with NFS, NIS (yellow pages), multicasting, packet filtering and firewall support.
  • Non-segmented demand-paged virtual memory.
  • Industry standard X11 Release 6.
  • Binary compatibility with many programs built for SCO, BSDI, NetBSD, and Linux.
  • Hundreds of applications ported and available in prepackaged binary and source form.
  • Sun-style shared libraries.
  • Development tools for many languages (C, C++, Fortran, Ada etc.).
  • And much more.
• The whole of FreeBSD is distributed in binary and source form. You have complete control over the system's operation, and can fix things or tailor the system to your needs.
• FreeBSD is FREE! You pay nothing whatsoever to use it.
• FreeBSD is based on the 4.4BSD-Lite release from the Computer Science Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB).
• The FreeBSD Project has put in many thousands of hours in fine tuning the system for maximum performance and reliability in real-life load situations.