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FreeBSD is a highly sophisticated operating system designed for the x86 compatible, DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. It is optimized for Internet and intranet servers, with strong networking and security features.
Additional ports to platforms such as PowerPC and Sparc64 are in the works. Among the free BSDs, FreeBSD enjoys the widest deployment, with highly visible commercial customers such as Yahoo. Software
packages are also numerous - at the time of writing, 7883 applications had been ported to FreeBSD. And, if there is a program available for Linux, FreeBSD's Linux compat support lets you run many Linux programs almost natively.
This book is intended as a resource to system programming on BSDs. The reader should be familiar with
basic programming in C or C++. The reader does not need to have system administration knowledge. System
administration skills would be useful, however, for creating a good development environment. For Futher
Reading:
FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/
OpenBSD: http://www.openbsd.org/
NetBSD: http:www.netbsd.org/
A Brief History of FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/hist...
The FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook
This Book is available at:
http://www.khmere.com/freebsd_book/
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