What Can You Do with FreeBSD?
Because FreeBSD comes with compilers for multiple programming languages, what you can do with FreeBSD is limited only by your imagination and the technical capabilities of your hardware. Various organizations are using FreeBSD for everything from low-end file sharing on old 486-class machines to creating high-end special effects and computergenerated animation rendering.
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The special effects for the Warner Brothers motion picture The Matrix were rendered on a powerful cluster of multiprocessor FreeBSD systems.
The following list provides some of the more common uses for FreeBSD that don’t require any programming skill or custom software:
File and print sharing— The freely available Samba software (covered in ...
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