December 2018
Beginner
826 pages
22h 54m
English
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FreeBSD
An OS with a varied focus (servers, desktops, IOT devices), FreeBSD is the most popular of the BSD derivatives.
It prides itself on having a vast array of software available, both in the form of pre-built packages (built quarterly at the time of writing) and "ports" that are built locally and are usually the most recent version of that piece of software.
A lot of open source software is heavily Linux focused. This isn't the fault of the BSDs—it simply comes down to market share. Because of this focus, the FreeBSD project has a lot of volunteers who dedicate their time to making packages work natively on FreeBSD, having to do minor and sometimes major tweaks to software to get it to compile and run. Much of this effort is then pushed ...