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to factory automation, inventory control to azimuth correction of
remote satellite antennae; if it can be done with a commercial
Unix product then it is more than likely that you can do it with
FreeBSD too! FreeBSD also benefits significantly from the
FreeBSD too! FreeBSD also benefits significantly from
literally thousands of high quality applications developed by
research centers and universities around the world, often
available at little to no cost. Commercial applications are also
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</indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>X Window System</primary>
<secondary>Accellerated-X</secondary>
<secondary>Accelerated-X</secondary>
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>X Window workstation:</emphasis> FreeBSD is a
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using the freely available XFree86 server or one of the
excellent commercial servers provided by X Inside. Unlike an
X terminal, FreeBSD allows many applications to be run
locally, if desired, thus relieving the burden on a central
locally if desired, thus relieving the burden on a central
server. FreeBSD can even boot <quote>diskless</quote>, making
individual workstations even cheaper and easier to
administer.</para>
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is one of the functions of the core team, as is the
recruitment of new core team members as others move on.
The current core team was elected from a pool of committer
candidates in October 2000. Elections are held every 2 years.
candidates in June 2002. Elections are held every 2 years.
</para>
<para>Some core team members also have specific areas of
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</indexterm>
<para>FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4BSD-Lite based
release for Intel i386, i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Celeron,
Pentium&nbsp;II, Pentium&nbsp;III (or compatible) and DEC Alpha based computer
Pentium&nbsp;II, Pentium&nbsp;III, Pentium&nbsp;IV (or compatible), Xeon, DEC Alpha and SPARC64 based computer
systems. It is based primarily on software from U.C. Berkeley's
CSRG group, with some enhancements from NetBSD, OpenBSD, 386BSD, and
the Free Software Foundation.</para>
<para>Since our release of FreeBSD&nbsp;2.0 in late 94, the performance,
feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically.
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The largest change is a revamped virtual memory system with a merged
VM/file buffer cache that not only increases performance, but also
reduces FreeBSD's memory footprint, making a 5&nbsp;MB configuration a
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were over &os.numports; ports! The list of ports ranges from
http (WWW) servers, to games, languages, editors, and almost
everything in between. The entire ports collection requires
approximately 100&nbsp;MB of storage, all ports being expressed as
approximately 170&nbsp;MB of storage, all ports being expressed as
<quote>deltas</quote> to their original sources. This makes
it much easier for us to update ports, and greatly reduces the
disk space demands made by the older 1.0 ports collection. To