Author: William Ding (Netease CEO)
In many people's hearts, PC is just a tool for writing or playing games. But the PC can be absolutely not just these. In the right hardware, under operating system configuration, the PC can express, and even hundreds of thousands of senior professional servers. If you can connect to the network, the world's largest FTP server is a PC running FreeBSD, equipped with Pentium Pro 200MHz, 512G hard drive, 1G memory, and 3,500 people can Download PC servers. Many people on the Internet know the famous Yahoo and Hotmail, but do you know what server is used behind these sites? The answer is surprising, Yahoo and Hotmail are all operating systems using FreeBSD to form their service. Of course, Yahoo and Hotmail are so large that behind the large system is not just a PC Luo. At present, Hotmail serves 20 million users, with more than 500 freebsd servers. There are now many people running a free Unix-Like operating system on the PC, and some people are already using Linux, what is the difference between Linux, FreeBSD, and other free operating systems? This will put it in the next one. From Linux to FreeBSD, playing the operating system first started graduation at college. At the time, I remembered that I was the most impressive in 93 years, I have just come out, and its multitasking makes me love unlearable, I even think that NT is the future Operating system. But after 1 year, my point of view was shaken, and I contacted SCO UNIX and Linux in an accidental opportunity. Unix enriched tools, stable performance and excellent multitasking, seem to truly recognize what is a stable multitasking operating system. Just when I am addicted to Slackware 2.0, another free operating system FreeBSD is spreading around the incredible speed and becomes a server of many websites. At that time, I remember that 50 servers in Yahoo used FreeBSD. Of course, ftp.cdrom.com has already used it. Why is freebsd so charm? This problem is probably waiting for you to use FreeBSD. FreeBSD is simple, FreeBSD is a free Unix system running on the PC, and FreeBSD makes your PC become an advanced powerful. · Install easy freebsd fairly easy to install, colorful monitonic installation screen makes you easy to install, of course, you can also install it through FTP, NFS, CDROM. · Complete free freebsd is not only completely free, but also provides 100% of the Source Code, allowing you to modify your system as you want, let you avoid the fate of operating system company. · Advanced multi-tasking current NetEase's personal home / page server is used for FreeBSD, you will understand. · Excellent network performance FreeBSD is ideal for the Internet server, providing complete TCP / IP network features, including SLIP, PPP, NFS, NIS, and other protocols. The network application system that can be stably run on FreeBSD is: WWW, Email, FTP, NFS, FireWall, BBS, Routing, News, Proxy • Complete 32-bit operating system FreeBSD can create a suitable right according to your CPU Currently for SMP's host FreeBSD can increase the operating efficiency of 40% than the single CPU. · System security High FreeBSD not only has high system security, but also has special login control and document protection, which protects your system and information from being destroyed. In addition, there are many masters specialize in various security issues. Once any vulnerability will be fixed, the user can use Source Code to update, and do not wait for a new version.