Before LINUX there was BSD then FreeBSD .. FreeBSD is an EXCELLENT OS .Is very equivalent to LINUX .most of the basic packages now current in LINUX came from freebsd . FreeBSD suffered for sometime a SETBACK ..because it could only run on a MONOPROCESSOR machines .at the same LINUX was already multiprocessor .But the latest releases do support MULTIPROCESSOR machines.
and of course this OS runs on multitude of machines.
Just to end the ORIGINAL SUN OS .. was a port of BSD on sun machines .Sun later switched to a MACH kernel based OS ,which was SOLARIS .
There is some Linux binary emulation package in FreeBSD and NetBSD...but wouldn't run it..too slow...
FreeBSD is not meant to be used for workstation..but for production quality internet services like apache/postfix/inn etc. (like most serious ISP´s do ;o)
There is some Linux binary emulation package in FreeBSD and NetBSD...but wouldn't run it..too slow...
FreeBSD is not meant to be used for workstation..but for production quality internet services like apache/postfix/inn etc. (like most serious ISP´s do ;o)