FreeBSD 7.0

Publisher's Description:

This is the ISO version of FreeBSD.

FreeBSD offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features today which are still missing in other operating systems, even some of the best commercial ones.

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 applications.

Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	frater_baphomet93	May 15, 2008
Version:	7.0
@nd Review: I tried for 2 weeks to install this OS on one old intel 1.5 pentium 4 PC and now a new 6 giga AMD PC and am disguested. Why can't anyone just download a DVD version of this OS????????????? Come on!?! swapping between 3 CD's for hours to get the packages you need. This is worse than Bill Gates!! I will not attempt another try at this abortion till they but this in DVD format. 1st review 2 weeks earlier: I've been using & testing linux systems for over 10 years and find it hard to believe that we are still forced to use either floppy disk and or Dos to boot up & install a "modern" OS systems such as this! Give me a break! You can do better than this. Even GodD*mn Windows systems can boot & be installed with only a single CDrom. This gives me much doubt in these alternative OS systems. This why so few new people try such other OS systems.
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Reviewer:	swenateb	Feb 28, 2008
Version:	7.0
Torrent downloading is available at the FreeBSD website and is probably a better downloading method. Thumbs up to the release team.
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Reviewer:	Ian C.	Feb 27, 2008
Version:	7.0
Another major feature that ssb and zridling didn't mention, is it's support for natively running unmodified Linux binaries (as well as other *nix clone binaries). The binary compatibility has been vastly improved in v7, and runs most Linux binaries faster than Linux does. I can vouch for this with the 6 years I've been running Linux HLDS on it. Ooooh, and check out the first bullet on the generic changelog: "Dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks, in some cases showing peak performance improvements as high as 350% over FreeBSD 6.X under normal loads and 1500% at high loads. When compared with the best performing Linux kernel (2.6.22 or 2.6.24) performance is 15% better."
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Reviewer:	ssb	Feb 27, 2008
Version:	7.0
FreeBSD 7 is an example of what engineering perfection really means! Maybe not for "weak heart" newbees, FreeBSD 7 is the best OS for any serious server and desktop use. Get it, use it, love it and forget everything you know about *nix clones. It's the real thing, not just another gnu/linux distribution.
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Reviewer:	zridling	Feb 27, 2008
Version:	7.0
Be very careful of downloading and installing FreeBSD. Once you do, you'll likely be hooked for a long, long time. Most of GNU/Linux software works on BSD, too, including OpenOffice. Among the many improvements include: performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks; the ULE scheduler is vastly improved, providing improved performance and interactive response; experimental support for Sun's ZFS filesystem; gjournal can be used to set up journaled filesystems, gvirstor can be used as a virtualized storage provider.
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