BSD is the abbreviation of "Berkely Software Distribution", translated into Chinese is "Berkeley Software Distribution". There are three branches of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. FreeBSD team is to support only PC systems and issue them as much as possible, NetBSD's focus is to support as many platforms as possible, and the OpenBSD target is to improve system security.
FreeBSD originates from the BSD release version, inherits the pure style of the BSD release, and inherits the BSD release version of the college style. FreeBSD's entire development process is relatively closed. It is very different from Linux development model. Anyone can write code for Linux, which can freely build its own Linux release. However, modifications to FreeBSD's source code must be reviewed through the FreeBSD Core Team, which is likely to join the source code tree of FreeBSD through the part of the review. When Linux changes, FreeBSD's distribution is still serious - the basic system minimizes (this is a very important reason I like BSD), and the additional program is appended from ports, both. Independence, you can install the basic system when installing the basic system, and install it when you need it, you can also customize the package to be installed during installation.
Since FreeBSD's network service efficiency and system stability, many internationally renowned large sites use freebsd systems, such as Hotmail and Yahoo !. Domestic Netease Web Server is also running on the FreeBSD system.
FreeBSD is an open source system, you can modify the entire system to comply with your requirements, apply FreeBSD:
Internet server:
(1), FTP server
(2), web server (standard or secure --ssl)
(3), firewall, NAT (IP camouflage) gateway
(4), Email server
(5), news groups and BBS, etc.
Use FreeBSD site:
Yahoo! --Http://www.yahoo.com
Apache - http://www.apache.org
Hotmail - http://www.hotmail.com
and many more......
