Comparison of BSD operating systems: Difference between revisions

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To maintain a high level of quality and provide good support for "production quality [[commercial off-the-shelf]] (COTS) workstation, server, and high-end embedded systems", FreeBSD focuses on a narrow set of architectures.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html#AEN1248 | title = Support for Multiple Architectures: Statement of General Intent | access-date = 2006-10-14 | work = Committer's Guide | publisher = The FreeBSD Documentation Project

| quote=The FreeBSD Project targets "production quality commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) workstation, server, and high-end embedded systems".}}</ref> A significant focus of development since 2000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.informatica.co.cr/unix-scalability/research/2000/0619.html |title=Destabilization due to SMP development |access-date=27 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203021917/http://www.informatica.co.cr/unix-scalability/research/2000/0619.html |archive-date=3 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> has been fine-grained locking and [[symmetric multiprocessing]] (SMP) scalability. From 2007 on, most of the kernel was fine-locked and scaling improvements started to be seen.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/papers/smp/slides.pdf {{Bare|title=How URLSMPng Works and Why It Doesn't Work The Way You Think |first=John |last=Baldwin PDF|date=MarchFebruary 6, 20222013}}</ref> Other recent work includes [[Common Criteria]] security functionality, such as mandatory access control and security event audit support.

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