What Can You Do with FreeBSD?
Because FreeBSD comes with compilers for multiple programming languages, what you can do with FreeBSD is really limited only by your imagination and the technical limits of your hardware. Various organizations are using FreeBSD for everything from low-end file sharing on an old 486, to creating high-end special effects and computer-generated animation rendering for motion pictures on multi-processor FreeBSD systems linked together in powerful clusters.
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The special effects for the Warner Brother's motion picture “The Matrix” were rendered on a cluster of FreeBSD systems.
The following lists some of the more common uses for FreeBSD that don't require any programming skill or custom software:
Economical file and ...
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