FreeBSD - The Power To Serve

FreeBSD is an advanced OS (operating system) for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon™), amd64 compatible (including Opteron™, Athlon™64, and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98 and UltraSPARC® architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development.


Supported Platforms
Here you will find a list of platforms that FreeBSD currently supports along with platforms currently being ported to.

FreeBSD/alpha Project
FreeBSD/amd64 Project                   
FreeBSD/ARM Project
FreeBSD/i386 Project
FreeBSD/ia64 Project
FreeBSD/MIPS Project
FreeBSD/pc98 Project
FreeBSD/ppc Project
FreeBSD/sparc64 Project
FreeBSD/sun4v Project
FreeBSD/xbox Project


FreeBSD is free! While you might expect an operating system with these features to sell for a high price, FreeBSD is available free of charge and comes with full source code. If you would like to purchase or download a copy to try out, more information is available.

FreeBSD FeaturesNo matter what the application, you want your system's resources performing at their full potential. FreeBSD's focus on performance, networking, and storage combine with easy system administration and excellent documentation to allow you to do just that.
A complete operating system based on 4.4BSD.

FreeBSD's distinguished roots derive from the BSD software releases from the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley. Over ten years of work have been put into enhancing BSD, adding industry-leading SMP, multithreading, and network performance, as well as new management tools, file systems, and security features. As a result, FreeBSD may be found across the Internet, in the operating system of core router products, running root name servers, hosting major web sites, and as the foundation for widely used desktop operating systems. This is only possible because of the diverse and world-wide membership of the volunteer FreeBSD Project. Read more HERE.


Homepage
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD
FreeBSD Handbook
Download FreeBSD


Installing FreeBSD
There are many options for installing FreeBSD, including installation from CD-ROM, DVD, floppy disk, an MS-DOS® partition, magnetic tape, anonymous FTP, and NFS. Please read through the installation guide before downloading the entire FreeBSD distribution.


By: Ramkrishna Guchhait