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• Published Subscription 16 Jul 2018

  Linux vs FreeBSD: a comparative evaluation

  By Stergios Papadimitriou, Lefteris Moussiades

  Abstract: Linux and FreeBSD are both favorite, full featured, advanced open-source operating systems. They present many similarities owning mainly to their common UNIX heritage and their monolithic structure. Both systems support dynamically loaded kernel modules that expand their functionality. Also, they provide a similar set of system calls, and their interrupt handling, and virtual memory management systems adopt many common patterns. However, there are also significant differences. In particular Linux tends …

  Published in Journal of Operating Systems Development & Trends · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2018 · pp. 1–10 Read article →