Introduction FreeBSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system and a popular server platform. While FreeBSD and other BSD-based systems share much in common with systems like Linux, there are points where these two families diverge in important ways. In this guide, we will briefly discuss some commonalities between FreeBSD and Linux before moving on to a more extended discussion on the
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