Update article for recent times:
o New platforms o CVS webpage has moved o Mention X.org o Minor rewordings PR: docs/71712 Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk>
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<legalnotice id="trademarks" role="trademarks">
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&tm-attrib.freebsd;
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&tm-attrib.amd;
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&tm-attrib.apple;
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&tm-attrib.linux;
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&tm-attrib.opengroup;
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world's network connected machines run Linux. 14.6% run BSD &unix;.
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Some of the world's largest web operations, such as <ulink
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url="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</ulink>, run BSD. The world's
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busiest FTP server, <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/">ftp.cdrom.com</ulink>, uses BSD to
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busiest FTP server of 1999 (now defunct), <ulink
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url="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/">ftp.cdrom.com</ulink>, used BSD to
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transfer 1.4 TB of data a day. Clearly this is not a niche
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market: BSD is a well-kept secret.</para>
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<para>The X Window system, which handles graphical display.</para>
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<para>The X Window system used in most versions of BSD is maintained
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by a separate project, the
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<ulink url="http://www.XFree86.org/">&xfree86; project</ulink>.
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by one of two separate projects, either the
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<ulink url="http://www.XFree86.org/">&xfree86; project</ulink> or the
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<ulink url="http://www.X.org/">X.Org project</ulink>.
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This is the same code as Linux uses. BSD does not normally
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specify a <quote>graphical desktop</quote> such as GNOME or KDE,
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though these are available.</para>
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<para>No one person or corporation owns BSD. It is created and
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distributed by a community of highly technical and committed
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contributors all over the world. Some of the components of BSD are
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Open Source projects managed by a different project maintainer.</para>
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Open Source projects in their own right and managed by different
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project maintainers.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<para>The BSD kernels are developed and updated following the Open
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Source development model. Each project maintains a publicly
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accessible <emphasis>source tree</emphasis> under the
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<ulink url="http://www.sourcegear.com/CVS/">Concurrent Versions
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<ulink url="http://www.cvshome.org/">Concurrent Versions
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System</ulink> (CVS), which contains all source files for the
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project, including documentation and other incidental files. CVS
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allows users to <quote>check out</quote> (in other words, to
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>No one person controls the content of the system. In
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practice, this difference is overrated, since the Chief Architect
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practice, this difference is overrated, since the Principal Architect
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can require that code be backed out, and even in the Linux project
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several people are permitted to make changes.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>FreeBSD aims for high performance and ease of use by
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end users, and is a favourite of web content providers. It runs
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on PCs and Compaq's Alpha processors. The FreeBSD project has
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on a number of platforms, including i386 based systems (<quote>PCs</quote>),
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systems based on the AMD 64-bit processors, &ultrasparc; based systems,
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systems based on Compaq's Alpha processors and systems based around
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the NEC PC-98 specification. The FreeBSD project has
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significantly more users than the other projects.</para>
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</listitem>
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