FreeBSD 4.2

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• Shipping Weight: 7.4 ounces
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• ASIN: B000056WAT
• Item model number: BSD
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #31,428 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

FreeBSD 4.2 is a full, professional quality, UNIX-compatible operatingsystem. It includes over 4,000 third-party software packages, all standardTCP/IP networking services, and a wide selection of Web servers, browsers,and e-mail software. FreeBSD is based on Berkeley 4.4 BSD, developed by theUniversity of California, Berkeley, and its contributors. This version includes many new features:

• ATA100 and ATA tagged queuing support for highest IDE performance
• Support for ATA pseudo RAID controllers such as the PromiseFasttrak and HighPoint HPT370 controllers
• Alteon AceNIC and Netgear GA620T 1000Base-T gigabit Ethernet cardsupport
• New sound card support for ESS Solo 1, Maestro-1, ESS Maestro-2/2e,Forte Media FM801, and VIA Technologies VT82C686A card/chipsets
• Updated support for AMI MegaRAID, Mylex AccelRAID, and eXtremeRAID SCSIcontrollers
• Support for 3ware IDE RAID controllers
• Support for USB scanners (HP ScanJet 4100C, 5200C, 6300C, and others)and USB modems (3Com 5605)
• OpenSSL and OpenSSH bundled by default and upgraded to 0.9.5a/2.2.0(now includes RSA)
• Sendmail upgraded to version 8.11.1
• Support for AMD PCnet/FAST, PCnet/FAST+, PCnet/FAST III, PCnet/PRO,PCnet/Home, and HomePNA adapters
• accept_filters, a kernel feature to reduce overheads when accepting andreading new connections on listening sockets
• CVS upgraded to version 1.11
• Hardware watchpoint support in GDB
• USB modems (includes Ricochet, 128 Kbps)
• Support for AMD network cards