Digital Ocean, a global cloud hosting provider headquartered in New York, announced that FreeBSD is now available the first non-Linux operating system on the Digital Ocean platform. FreeBSD is an open-source Unix-like operating system that - like other BSD versions - is derived from Unix. This OS would provide greater flexibility for developers to compile their software from source rather than the packaged binary paradigm that Linux follows.
The availability of FreeBSD, which has been strongly requested by developers using the Digital platform Ocean, was made possible thanks to a recent update backend codebase of its data centers, especially the release of their meta-data service. Originally built to complement the release of CoreOS, it enabled more rapid progress on all future distributions.
"Digital Ocean will continue to give developers more options," said Moisey Uretsky, co-founder and chief product officer of Digital Ocean . "FreeBSD differs from Linux in its history and philosophy; we want to continue shipping products to our users require. "
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The release was possible at the beginning of the new year due to laser of Digital Ocean engineering team focus in recent weeks, led by Neal Shrader, senior software engineer at Digital Ocean .
"the internal structure the Digital Ocean engineering team has changed significantly over time due to the company's dynamic growth, "said Shrader ." What started as a couple of guys coding furiously in a room in Brooklyn jumped to an organization of over 100 people serving hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. There was a continued focus on improving the way we approach, prioritize and execute this work -. FreeBSD image is a testament to the successful alignment "
Featuring an Uptime SLA of 99.99% Digital Ocean has servers located in New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Singapore and London. The interface of the cloud platform Digital Ocean server is said to have a single panel, intuitive control, that power users can replicate on a larger scale with simple enterprise API.
FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop and embedded computing platforms. the FreeBSD code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of people.
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