Migrating to FreeBSD

At the time of this writing, and as accurately as these things can be measured (which is to say, not very), FreeBSD has approximately 10 percent of the open-source UNIX Internet server market. The rest of that market is almost all Linux, with the remainder comprised of NetBSD, OpenBSD, and a few other little-known variants. In the wider server market, Windows 2000/XP/Server 20003 claims about a 30-percent share (and remaining steady), with UNIX/Linux—both commercial and open-source—estimated at about 60 percent. By any measure, this means FreeBSD is not an especially large player. However, market share alone does not dictate the quality of a piece of software, as anyone reading this book likely knows.

FreeBSD usage, while ...

Get FreeBSD6 Unleashed now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.