Some of FreeBSD's features are: preemptive multitasking with

dynamic priority adjustment to ensure smooth and fair sharing

of the computer between applications and users. Multiuser

access - peripherals such as printers and tape drives can be

shared between all users. Complete TCP/IP networking

including SLIP, PPP, NFS and NIS. Memoryprotection, demand-paged virtual memory with a merged

VM/buffer cache design. FreeBSD was designed as a 32 bitoperating system. X Window System (X11R6) provides a

graphical user interface. Binary compatibility with many

programs built for SCO, BSDI, NetBSD, 386BSD, and

Linux. Hundreds of ready-to-run applications in the FreeBSD

ports collection. FreeBSD is source code compatible with

most popular commercial Unix systems and thus most

applications require few, if any, changes to compile. Sharedlibraries. A full compliment of C, C++, Fortran and

Perl development tools and many other languages. Sourcecode for the entire system is available. Extensive on-line

documentation.