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FreeBSD in the Enterprise An Introduction for Linux Users

FreeBSD in a nutshell

FreeBSD History

Places you’ll find FreeBSD

Enterprise Use

Factors that Help

Internet Infrastructure

Differences from Linux

FreeBSD Licensing Model

Slide 10

The GPL and BSD Licenses

Source Code Control

Slide 13

Source Code Distribution

Development Organization

Slide 16

FreeBSD is a complete OS

FreeBSD Release Model

Slide 19

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Third Party Packages

Ports Tree Growth

Linux Compatability

FreeBSD for Development

FreeBSD on the Desktop

FreeBSD Technologies

Slide 28

The Build System

Building World

Building Releases

Release Engineering

Slide 33

Running a FreeBSD binary

Running a Linux binary

Running Linux binaries

NDISulator

Slide 38

More Information

Questions?

Author: Murray Stokely

E-mail: murray@FreeBSD.org

Homepage: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~murray