What Is FreeBSD Being Used for?

Because the source code for FreeBSD is freely available and FreeBSD comes with a large number of programming tools, what you can do with FreeBSD is really only limited by your imagination and skill as a programmer. However, without having any programming skill, here are some of things that you can do with FreeBSD.

Set Up a Powerful Web Server

The CD that comes with this book includes the Apache Web server, which is the most popular Web server software on the Internet. FreeBSD and Apache is widely regarded as one of the best software combinations for building a powerful and stable Web server. Yahoo!, the Apache Project itself, and Sony Japan rely on FreeBSD to power their Web sites. If you do not want set up a public ...

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