BSD: The other free OS

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BSD - The other free OS

This talk stolen from others

Why I'm not qualified to talk

Some recent anniversaries

What are you going to learn?

What are you not going to hear?

About this box

Who's that?

A little history

BSD in the 80s

But is it free?

A free UNIX

Why such a secret?

The BSD wars

BSD development model

BSD releases

Current releases

The BSD license

GPL - BSD

The NetBSD project

The OpenBSD project

OpenBSD

The FreeBSD project

The FreeBSD team

Who uses BSD?

FreeBSD QA

Which BSD is the one for me?

Security

FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a complete OS

FreeBSD source distribution

But will it run Linux?

FreeBSD does Linux

Desktop support

man pages online

FreeBSD Ports Tree

So you want to be a webserver?

Would you like fries with that?

OK, how do I keep up?

Bigger, stronger, faster!

Misc mundane tasks

unscientific research

Differences found by Linux users

Differences (II)

Similarities found by Linux users

What the Linux users missed

?missed II

What the Linux users liked

Liked II

Back to reality

What you just heard

For more information

References

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Author: Dan Langille

E-mail: dan@freebsddiary.org

Homepage: http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/

Further information:
Originally presented at Ottawa Canada Linux User Group http://www.oclug.on.ca/ on 3 January 2002. Also available from http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/talks/oclug.tgz as a tarball and http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/talks/oclug-sdd.tgz as a StarOffice presentation.

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