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My name is Gerard van Essen, and I'm the founder of this site.
Being a happy FreeBSD/PC-BSD and FreeNAS user, it's my aim to spread FreeBSD related news in order to raise public awareness of this great operating sytem ... [more]
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The unknown Giant
Why is this blog called "FreeBSD, the unknown Giant? Well, that's what IBM has called it. It's as simple as that:
IBM: "The FreeBSD operating system is the unknown giant among free operating systems. Starting out from the 386BSD project, it is an extremely fast UNIX®-like operating system mostly for the Intel® chip and its clones. In many ways, FreeBSD has always been the operating system that GNU/Linux®-based operating systems should have been. It runs on out-of-date Intel machines and 64-bit AMD chips, and it serves terabytes of files a day on some of the largest file servers on earth." - Source: Why FreeBSD
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