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A few post-stone age updates for the About page:

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- We now support PowerPC, and shortly will support MIPS.
- You might want to build an appliance or embedded product on FreeBSD, as
  many others do.
- We have over 17,000 applications, but most of the so-called "commercial
  UNIX workstations" don't even exist any more, so don't mention them.
- Floppy disk and tape installs OBE.

There's more work to be done here.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/about.sgml,v 1.11 2006/11/07 16:54:31 danger Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/about.sgml,v 1.12 2007/09/07 16:36:19 joel Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "About FreeBSD">
<!ENTITY % navinclude.about "INCLUDE">
]>
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<p>FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86
compatible (including Pentium&reg; and Athlon&trade;), amd64
compatible (including Opteron&trade;, Athlon&trade;64,
and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC&reg;
and EM64T), ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, PC-98 and UltraSPARC&reg;
architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of
&unix; developed at the
University of California, Berkeley. It is developed
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loads and uses memory efficiently to maintain good response
times for thousands of simultaneous user processes.</p>
<h2>Advanced Embedded Platform</h2>
<p>FreeBSD brings advanced network operating system
features to appliance and embedded platforms, from
higher-end Intel-based appliances to Arm, PowerPC,
and shortly MIPS hardware platforms. From
mail and web appliances to routers, time servers,
and wireless access points, vendors around the
world rely on FreeBSD's integrated build and
cross-build environments and advanced features as
the foundation for their embedded products. And
the Berkeley open source license lets them decide
how many of their local changes they want to
contribute back.</p>
<h2>Run a huge number of
applications</h2>
<p>The quality of FreeBSD combined with today's low-cost,
high-speed PC hardware makes FreeBSD a very economical
alternative to commercial &unix;
workstations. It is well-suited
for a great number of both desktop and server
<a href="&base;/applications.html">applications</a>.</p>
<p>With over 17,000 ported libraries and <a
href="&base;/applications.html">applications</a>,
FreeBSD supports applications for desktop, server,
appliance, and embedded environments.</p>
<h2>Easy to install</h2>
<p>FreeBSD can be installed from a variety of media
including CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, floppy disk, magnetic tape,
an MS-DOS&reg; partition, or if you have a network
connection, you can install it <i>directly</i> over
anonymous FTP or NFS. All you need are
including CD-ROM, DVD, or directly over the network
using FTP or NFS. All you need are
<a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html">these
directions</a>.</p>