FreeBSD

The last FreeBSD release before 6.x series is 5.4 [3] (released on May 2005). FreeBSD developers maintain (at least) two branches of simultaneous development: a -STABLE branch of FreeBSD, from which releases are cut about once every 4-6 months. The latest 4-STABLE release of FreeBSD is 4.11, this is the last of 4-STABLE releases. The first 5-STABLE release was 5.3. The last 5-STABLE release will be 5.5. The first 6-STABLE release was 6.0. The development branch, -CURRENT, contains aggressive new kern ...

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FreeBSD, FreeBSD - History and development, FreeBSD - FreeBSD 5 development and changes, FreeBSD - FreeBSD 6 and 7, FreeBSD - Ports collection, FreeBSD - Linux compatibility, FreeBSD - License, FreeBSD - Derivatives

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DesktopBSD is essentially a customized installation of FreeBSD and is not a fork of FreeBSD. DesktopBSD is always based on FreeBSD's latest -STABLE branch but incorporates certain customized, pre-installed software such as KDE and DesktopBSD utilities and configuration files. A common misconception about DesktopBSD is that it is intended as a rival to PC-BSD as a BSD-based desktop distribution, since they are similar in structure and goals. However, the DesktopBSD project was started approximately one year before the PC-BSD pro ...

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DesktopBSD, DesktopBSD - History and development

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The Gentoo/FreeBSD project aims to create a full system using Gentoo Linux layout and init system, while using a pure FreeBSD underlying operating system. A part the practical and technical reason for such a project, it has to be noted that this project has others implications. By replacing ports with other building recipes (ebuilds), Gentoo/FreeBSD is also going to help improvement of software portability, because the specific patches present in ports has to be rewritten as generic ones and ...

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Gentoo/FreeBSD, Gentoo/FreeBSD - Logo, Gentoo/FreeBSD - Reasons

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The objective of the main game is to guide a cartoon monkey character encased in a ball across a suspended series of platforms and through a goal. The main game is very simplistic--in fact the only control required is the directional analog stick. By moving the joystick, the player actually tilts the entire set of platforms that make up the level, called the floor, and the monkey ball rolls accordingly. Although practically this is virtually indistinguishable from actively moving the ball, it is revealed subtly in the general tilt of ...

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Super Monkey Ball, Super Monkey Ball - Main game, Super Monkey Ball - Strategy, Super Monkey Ball - Party games, Super Monkey Ball - Minigames

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Debian GNU/kFreeBSD can be tried using the Ging Live-CD. Ging is a Live CD distribution based on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Ging is a recursive acronym that stands for Ging Is Not Ging. As of version 0.1.0, Ging includes a KDE 3.4 desktop, a complete toolchain with gcc 4.0, and a mixture of GNOME and KDE apps like Koffice, GIMP, Konqueror, etc. ...

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Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD - Ging

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NetBSD, like its sister project FreeBSD, was derived from the original University of California Berkeley's 4.3BSD release via the Networking/2 and 386BSD releases. The project began as a result of frustration within the 386BSD developer community with the pace and direction of the operating system's development. The four founders of the NetBSD project, Chris Demetriou, Theo de Raadt, Adam Glass and Charles Hannum, felt that a more open development model would be more beneficial to the project; one which was centred on portable, clean, correct code. Their aim was to produce a unified, multi-platform, production-qu ...

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NetBSD, NetBSD - History, NetBSD - Portability, NetBSD - Licensing, NetBSD - Compatibility with other operating systems, NetBSD - Packages collection, NetBSD - Logo

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PC-BSD's package management system takes a different approach to installing software than many other Unix-like operating systems. Instead of utilizing FreeBSD's ports or packages system, PC-BSD uses files with the .pbi filename extension which, when double clicked, brings up an installation wizard program. All software packages and libraries are installed in their own self-contained directories in /usr/local, decreasing confusion about where the binary programs reside and reducing the possiblity of breaking a package if system libraries are upgraded or changed. The PC-BSD package manager also takes care of creating ...

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PC-BSD, PC-BSD - Package management, PC-BSD - License

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pf logging is configurable per rule within the pf.conf. Logs are managed in the binary tcpdump/pcap format. Logs can be accessed through the pseudo network device called 'pflog' using a utility like tcpdump. Alternatively, the 'pflogd' utility can collect and place logs in the binary log file /var/log/pflog which also can be processed using tcpdump, Ethereal or similar utilities. The tcpdump/pcap format has been modified somewhat to record firewall rule numbers, pass/block status, interface used, and this information is only available to utilities which are aware of the particular encoding used, including both modern ver ...

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Pf, Pf - Commands and options, Pf - Example PF.conf file, Pf - Logging

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The Almquist shell (ash) originally was Kenneth Almquist's clone of the SVR4-variant of the Bourne shell. Meanwhile it is a fast, small, POSIX-compatible Unix shell. By intention it did not feature line editing or history mechanisms originally, because such should move into the terminal driver. Current variants have emacs and vi modes added. ash is installed as the default shell (/bin/sh) on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Minix. Some Linux distributions, such as Naked Lady, also use the Almquist Shell as the default sh ...

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Wi-Fi (also WiFi, Wi-fi, Wifi, or wifi) is a set of product compatibility standards for wireless local area networks (WLAN) based on the IEEE 802.11 specifications. New standards beyond the 802.11 specifications, such as 802.16(WiMAX), are currently in the works and offer many enhancements, anywhere from longer range to greater transfer speeds. Wi-Fi was intended to be used for mobile devices and LANs, but is now often used for Internet access. It enables a person with a wireless-enabled computer or ...

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• Wi-Fi - Wi-Fi vs. cellular
• Wi-Fi - Commercial Wi-Fi
• Wi-Fi - Free Wi-Fi
• Wi-Fi - Advantages of Wi-Fi
• Wi-Fi - Disadvantages of Wi-Fi
• Wi-Fi - Wi-Fi Gaming
• Wi-Fi - Wi-Fi and free software
• Wi-Fi - Trademark
• Wi-Fi - Unintended and Intended use by outsiders

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The Microsoft Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console first released on November 15, 2001 in North America, then released on February 22, 2002 in Japan, and on March 14, 2002 in Europe. It was Microsoft's first independent venture into the console arena, after having developed the operating system and development tools for the MSX, and having collaborated with Sega in porting Windows CE to the Sega Dreamcast console. Notable launch titles for the console include Amped, Dead or Alive 3, Halo: Combat EvolvedIncluding:

• Xbox - History
• Xbox - Development
• Xbox - Software
• Xbox - Xbox Live
• Xbox - Market share
• Xbox - Hardware
• Xbox - Detailed specifications
• Xbox - Special Limited Editions
• Xbox - Official Xbox accessories
• Xbox - Audio/video connectors
• Xbox - Networking
• Xbox - Multimedia
• Xbox - Controllers and removable storage
• Xbox - Screenshots
• Xbox - Xbox and DirectX
• Xbox - Modding the Xbox
• Xbox - Price history
• Xbox - Xbox 360
• Xbox - Programming for Xbox

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In software engineering, a compatibility layer allows binaries for an emulated system to run on a host system. This translates system calls for the emulated system into system calls for the host system. With some libraries for the emulated system, this will often be sufficient to run binaries for the host system. Examples include: the Linux compatibility layer on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD, which emulates Red Hat Linux using a system call translator and Red Hat libraries; Wine, which runs s ...

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Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, standardised by ANSI X3.226-1994. Developed to standardize the divergent variants of Lisp which predated it, it is not an implementation but rather a language specification to which most Lisp implementations conform. Common Lisp is a general-purpose programming language, in contrast to Lisp variants such as Emacs Lisp and AutoLISP which are embedded extension languages in particular products. Unlike many earlier Lisps, Comm ...

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• Common Lisp - Syntax
• Common Lisp - Data types
• Common Lisp - Scalar types
• Common Lisp - Data structures
• Common Lisp - Functions
• Common Lisp - Other types
• Common Lisp - Macros
• Common Lisp - Comparison with other Lisps
• Common Lisp - Implementations
• Common Lisp - List of implementations
• Common Lisp - Applications

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AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers. AmigaOS - Overview. The main modularization technique in AmigaOS is based on libraries (files with a ".library" extension), which are collections of functions much like shared libraries in other operating systems, but don't make use of dynamic linking (this has advantages and disadvantages). One standard AmigaOS library enjoys a special status: the exec.library is the only library i ...

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• AmigaOS - Overview
• AmigaOS - The AmigaOS components
• AmigaOS - Kickstart
• AmigaOS - Workbench
• AmigaOS - Graphics
• AmigaOS - Audio
• AmigaOS - Video
• AmigaOS - ARexx
• AmigaOS - Ram Disk
• AmigaOS - AmigaOS versions
• AmigaOS - Kickstart/Workbench 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3
• AmigaOS - Kickstart/Workbench 1.4
• AmigaOS - Kickstart/Workbench 2.0 2.05 2.1
• AmigaOS - Kickstart/Workbench 3.0 3.1
• AmigaOS - AmigaOS 3.5 3.9
• AmigaOS - AmigaOS 4
• AmigaOS - AmigaOS influence on other Operating Systems
• AmigaOS - Trivia

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Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD, sometimes called Berkeley Unix) is the Unix derivative distributed by the University of California, Berkeley starting in the 1970s. The name is also used collectively for the modern descendants of these distributions. BSD was widely identified with the versions of Unix available for workstation-class systems. This can be attributed to the ease with which it could be licensed and the familiarity it found among the founders of many technology companies during the 1980s. This fami ...

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• Berkeley Software Distribution - History
• Berkeley Software Distribution - PDP-11 beginnings
• Berkeley Software Distribution - VAX versions
• Berkeley Software Distribution - 4.3BSD
• Berkeley Software Distribution - Net/2 and legal troubles
• Berkeley Software Distribution - 4.4BSD and descendants
• Berkeley Software Distribution - Technology
• Berkeley Software Distribution - Open source BSD derivatives
• Berkeley Software Distribution - Structure
• Berkeley Software Distribution - BSD descendants

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William Nelson Joy (born 1954), commonly known as Bill Joy, co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. Bill Joy - Early career. After growing up in rural Michigan Joy received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Bill Joy was the person largely responsible for the authorship of ...

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• Bill Joy - Early career
• Bill Joy - Sun
• Bill Joy - Technology fears
• Bill Joy - Post-Sun activities

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The BSD license is an acronym for the Berkeley Software Distribution license agreement, and is one of the most widely used licences for free software (a subset of open source software). Many software programs are released under this license including BSD software (largely, a version of UNIX) for which the license was named. The owner of the original BSD distribution was the "Regents of the University of California". This is because BSD originally came from the University of California, Berkeley. The official BSD license has bee ...

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• BSD license - Terms of the BSD license
• BSD license - Compatibility with proprietary software licenses
• BSD license - Compatibility with other free software licenses
• BSD license - The UC Berkeley advertising clause
• BSD license - BSD-style licenses

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The console is the text output device for system administration messages, particularly those from the BIOS or boot loader, the kernel, from the init system and from the system logger. On traditional minicomputers, the console was an RS-232 serial link to a terminal such as a DEC VT100. This terminal was usually kept in a secured room since it could be used for certain privileged functions such as halting the system or selecting which media to boot from. Large midrange systems, e.g. those from Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard a ...

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BitTorrent is the name of a client application for the torrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol. created by programmer Bram Cohen. BitTorrent is designed to widely distribute large amounts of data without incurring the corresponding consumption in server and bandwidth resources (and typically, monetary fees attracted as a result of that). The original BitTorrent application is written in Python and its source code has been released under the BitTorrent Open Source License (a modified version of the Jabber Open Sour ...

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• BitTorrent - How BitTorrent works
• BitTorrent - Sharing files
• BitTorrent - Terminology
• BitTorrent - Comparison to other file sharing systems
• BitTorrent - Legal issues
• BitTorrent - Copyright enforcement
• BitTorrent - Legal defenses
• BitTorrent - Legal uses for BitTorrent
• BitTorrent - Etiquette
• BitTorrent - New developments
• BitTorrent - Alternative approaches
• BitTorrent - BitTorrent search / Trackerless
• BitTorrent - Web seeding unofficial feature
• BitTorrent - Broadcatching
• BitTorrent - API
• BitTorrent - BitTorrent-related applications
• BitTorrent - Clients
• BitTorrent - Applications

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BSD Daemon is the BSD operating system's mascot. Many folks have asked about the BSD daemon's name. The proper name is just "BSD Daemon". A Walnut Creek advertiser wrongfully named the BSD daemon as "Chuck", maybe because of his shoes. Those insisting on a name call him "Beastie," likely a phonetic pronunciation of BSD (BeeS Dee). The BSD Daemon is a daemon and usually carries a trident to symbolize the daemon's forking of processes. The copyright of the BSD Daemon is held by Marshall Kirk McKusick who tries to ensure th ...

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• BSD Daemon - ASCII image

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