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The Bears are
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AX6™'s
Official Logo (above) is:
The Alaskan
Grizzly Bear
(Ursus arctos
horribilis)
AX6/vBSD™'s Code
Name is:
Khutzeymateen
named
for a valley located in British Columbia, Canada where the largest
number of living
Alaskan Grizzly
Bear Families may still be
found. The Alaskan Grizzly Bears have
lived in this
Canadian Rain
Forest for
thousands of years. The Grizzly Bear is endangered, almost having
vanished from California altogether due to unrestrained hunting and
trapping.
The California
Grizzly is the Official Athletic Mascot of the University of
California, Berkeley.
Cal Berkeley's
renowned Computer Research Center developed the core of 4.4BSD from
which the AX6/vBSD™
operating system comes.
AT&T developed
the original versions at Bell Research Laboratories, which is now
part of Lucent Technologies and part of SBC/AT&T.
Developed to
protect America's communications infrastructure from the
consequences of Nuclear War during the cold war, UNIX is as refined
and appropriate now as ever. We believe it the perfect "SOUL" for
the new Internet Driven Software World! |
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Operating
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Product Information |
All About CompAmerica's AX6/vBSD™
(dedicated to the memory of Ernst Orlando
Lawrence: a peaceful man who made Nuclear Weapons feasible.)
1.0 CompAmerica's complete operating system based on
enhanced 4.4BSD + extended functions, extensive communications
enhancements to support the common Windows PC, full scalability and
full virtualization.
In the summer of 1995 continuing through 2005,
CompAmerica started developing an operating system capable of
powering it's single and multi-CPU Servers for High Performance
Server applications, business apps and industrial systems.
Included in the development effort, we evaluated
SunSoft's x86 Solaris, subsequently removed from the Market, MAC/OS
Server, Linux, Personal AIX from IBM, Warp Server, Windows NT, SCO
Unix, VMS, Open VMS and Windows 2000 Server Family.
CompAmerica has routinely shipped a variety of Windows 2000 and 2003/2005
Server products over the years, as well as Linux based servers.
We were, however, looking for software we could acquire and build
upon for use with our computers. We wanted an operating systems that
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fully unleashed SCALABILITY with
integral efficiency in design with robust features
supporting such things as sockets, queues, pipes, blobs,
garbage collection, process monitoring, logging, and a
multitude of other capabilities
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great ease in supporting
previously unsupported hardware and applications without
dependency upon nor limited by third party's commercial
objectives.
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broad support for advanced IP,
TCP, Ethernet, Wifi and other protocols that will
follow
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a best in breed, mature, better
designed, fully pre-emptive multitasking O/S
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an advanced file system that
provides native security and concurrency.
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a
reliable, stable operational multiprocessing/multiprocessor
environment not dependant upon a sole third party's
commercial objectives to obtain features, maintain
stability.
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a robustly documented O/S with
an Open Source foundation so to insure understandability by
thinking personnel and maintainability in all circumstances
without delay.
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upwards compatibility with
Government and Academic standards, to provide for both
commercial and non-commercial use without artificially
imposed limits.
During that time period, CompAmerica
developed a series of facilities for its servers and workstations:
EMail and Internet connectivity with anti-spam, anti-virus and
antispyware, and extended features for
high availability - the ability to recover from failure: today called VFTA and xTend, the two key suites
that constitute the v-Extensions. After five generations of
testing and configuring and authoring, AX6/vBSD™ has emerged as
CompAmerica's standard OS for high performance, high availability,
high scalability servers. With its vast backing throughout
CompAmerica, the Academic and BSD development "Universe" we believe
it to be our customers' best
choice for the future, as it offers the most efficiency, the
greatest "freedom of will" in its tailoring, and the best "freedom
to choose" in its overall open ended design. We have
started out with the freely Open Source version of BSD, FreeBSD, and
built on it, producing what we believe is the finest O/S in the
world.
These three
factors we decided were the most important, all other options being
too restrictive. We also found the core of AX6/vBSD™ to be among the
most stable, reliable running Operating System Kernels we have ever
tested with features and resources, ease of management and low cost
of ownership that CompAmerica believes eclipses IBM Z/OS, IBM
AIX, IBM/OS, Microsoft Server Family, and various Unix variations
such as Solaris, Novel Netware, Novel Unixware, Red Hat Server, Suse
Server and SCO. Being Linux binary compatible, AX6/vBSD™ can
cross populate with Linux more easily than other systems.
AX6/vBSD™'s
distinguished roots derive from the latest Free BSD software
releases from the Computer Systems Research Group at the University
of California, Berkeley. The book The Design and Implementation
of 4.4BSD Operating System, written by the 4.4BSD system
architects, thus describes much of AX6/vBSD™'s core functionality in
detail. Interestingly, BSD Unix had been in use at CompAmerica
for over a decade, to host supercomputing applications which
CompAmerica delivered to government clients. However, the
emergence of Free BSD and today's 4.4BSD OS, led CompAmerica to
conclude that it, over all the other choices, despite the fact that
while Linux binary compatible, is neither System V Release 4, nor
Linux, represents an accomplishment in operating system development
unequalled by any and all other choices.
Drawing on the skills and experience of
a diverse and world-wide group of volunteer developers, the FreeBSD
Project has worked to extend the feature set of the 4.4BSD operating
system in many ways, striving constantly to make each new release of
the OS more stable, faster and containing new functionality driven
by user requests.
CompAmerica has enhanced and added to BSD with World Class Server capabilities,
including enhanced Apache server, v-Extensions (Adhoc VPN
Management, MultiServer Clustering to 255 systems, Grid Clustering
to 65,534 systems, Government enhanced Encryption for government
clients, C++, Java and other Development systems, enhancements to
support Oracle and My SQL, Embedded DIME Data Base supporting Object
Oriented SQL, Media Objects, and Stream UIDs, and other features
such as Multiprocessor Load Balancing, Dual Core and Hyperthreading
support, and Hypertransport Bus drive) along with 8thman, our
advanced Web and Collaborate solution that provides the ability to
use an AX6/vBSD™ server on the Web with Apache, our enhanced FTP
server, and Front Page Extensions, and it becomes a globally
accessible File Server, unleashing the real power of high speed
internet securely.
CompAmerica has greatly enhanced the distribution and installation
of AX6/vBSD™by providing pre-configuration for individual systems that are
pre-installed by CompAmerica, both workstations and servers, same as
it does for AX5, as well as providing extended configuration and
installation on-site at customers who require same. The virtualization of
AX6/vBSD™is not Open Source,
but source code customization may be obtained under a suitable NDA.
CompAmerica's new, top of the line 8-way
Xeon server/workstation, the Viper, featuring up to 64GB memory,
Dual Core Hyperthreading for up to 32-way operation in a single 4-U
chassis, and 1/10Gigabit Networking, is fully supported by AX6, as
is the X-Wing, an AMD Opteron based brother to the Viper. A
Laptop Edition AX6/M (for Pentium M based Laptops with Centrino
Architecture) is under development and will be made available by
May, 2006.
CompAmerica' advanced GUI - GDX -
developed as an alternative to X11, is slated for release late in
2006.
1.1 HARDWARE SUPPORT
A CompAmerica AX6/vBSD™ equipped computer system is a nearly Universal
computer which may be configured in almost any manner. It can
serve as a dedicated server with multiple accessors, as a cluster in
a variety of scalable configurations, as part of a server farm or
blade farm, as a Namespace or Domain Server, as a dedicated
computer, as a workstation, PC O/S, or Slim Client, as an embedded
o/s in an industrial computer, as a communications controller
platform, as a real time or timeshared system, as a node in a
network, as a controller of a network, as a firewall router, and in
any of thousands of imaginable other arrangements. In addition
to the supported hardware, CompAmerica provides "Adaptive
Installation Services" which can add virtually any other hardware to
AX6/vBSD™ as may be required.
AX6/vBSD™ is currently certified for all
CompAmerica PCs and Servers and some Laptops with a minimum of 64 MB
of RAM and a CDROM or Flash/Memory Drive (In addition to supporting
standalone and scalable servers AX6/vBSD™can be configured as a CDROM
based Slim client on PCs as well which have a supported graphic
adapter). Supported CompAmerica systems must possess at least one Intel Pentium
4 or M, Pentium III, Celeron, Xeon, or at least one AMD Athlon,
Athlon64, AthlonFX, Duron, Opteron, Sempron or at least one Via C3 or
C7. AX6/vBSD™'s X11 Server (R6) requires a supported Video Adapter /
Chipset for local Video support, and supports X11R6 compatible
remote Graphical Terminals, Thin Clients and any PCs with a current
X11 client installed. AX6/vBSD™supports individual, and RAID storage of
all kinds.
AX6/vBSD™'s Virtual Terminal Services requires
a VPN and/or Virtual Terminal Client installed on the accessing PC
(both of which are provided with all Microsoft and Apple computers).
Any client PC with AX6/vBSD™'s 8thman Client Web Drive may freely access
files on a CompAmerica AX6/vBSD™ computer, NFS support allows qualified file sharing,
and a broad spectrum of other communications connectivity ranging
from VPN, to BSC Emulation, to Telnet, SSH, HTTPd, Secure HTM, SSL
and so forth are fully supported. For a more complete survey
of supported services, configurations, hardware and networking,
please consult with your CompAmerica representative at 908-931-1200
and/or consult with the online manual at the end of this page.
To left is a CompAmerica Viper B888.
The Viper includes up to eight (8) AMD Opteron 800 Dual Core CPUs. It achieves virtual
16-way
concurrency at a density that exceeds the industry in concentrated
computation. Full support for single or clusters or
grid-clusters of Vipers is
made available by the Processing Array Manager built into AX6/vBSD™. An autonomous device provides continuous
watch dog, self maintenance, monitoring, recovery and reboot.
The Viper may be equipped with up to
32GB of DDR2 Memory, up to 16 Hard Drives, and up to two Optical
Devices. Viper Clusters/Grids support up to 256 systems connected by
full duplex 10Gigabit/second CompAmerica-FiberLink through a Viper
Master Routing Control Unit, a device designed to intensify the
connectivity between them, allowing application migration and data
sharing at very high speed. Viper Hyper-Clusters allow up to 32 Viper
Clusters of 8 Viper B888's to be linked by a CompAmerica 100 Gigabit/second waveguide channel
between the VMRCs.
Viper support under AX6/vBSD™ is made
available through an optional, Viper specific upgrade, unavailable
with standard AX6/vBSD™. The VSU requires installation and setup
activation.
2.0 AX6/vBSD™ provides higher
performance, greater compatibility with other operating systems and
less system administration.
AX6/vBSD™'s developers attacked some of
the more difficult problems in operating systems design to give you
these advanced features:
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A merged virtual memory and
filesystem buffer cache continuously tunes the amount of
memory used for programs and the disk cache. As a result,
programs receive both excellent memory management and high
performance disk access, and the system administrator is freed
from the task of tuning cache sizes.
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Compatibility modules enable
programs for other operating systems to run on AX6/vBSD™, including
programs for Linux, SCO UNIX, and System V Release 4.
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Soft Updates allows improved
filesystem performance without sacrificing safety and
reliability. It analyzes meta-data filesystem operations to
avoid having to perform all of those operations synchronously.
Instead, it maintains internal state about pending meta-data
operations and uses this information to cache meta-data, rewrite
meta-data operations to combine subsequent operations on the
same files, and reorder meta-data operations so that they may be
processed more efficiently. Features such as background
filesystem checking and file system snapshots are built on the
consistency and performance foundations of soft updates.
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File system snapshots,
permitting administrators to take atomic file system snapshots
for backup purposes using the free space in the file system, as
well as facilitating background fsck, which allows the
system to reach multiuser mode without waiting on file system
cleanup operations following power outages.
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Support for IP Security (IPsec)
allows improved security in networks, and support for the
next-generation Internet Protocol, IPv6. The AX6/vBSD™ IPsec
implementation includes support for a broad range of
accelerated crypto hardware.
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Out of the box support for IPv6
via the KAME IPv6 stack allows AX6/vBSD™ to be seamlessly integrated
into next generation networking environments. AX6/vBSD™ even ships
with many applications extended to support IPv6!
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Multi-threaded SMP architecture
capable of executing the kernel in parallel on multiple
processors, and with kernel preemption, allowing high
priority kernel tasks to preempt other kernel activity, reducing
latency. This includes a multi-threaded network stack and
a multi-threaded virtual memory subsystem. With AX6/vBSD™ 6.x,
support for a fully parallel VFS allows the UFS file system to
run on multiple processors simultaneously, permitting load
sharing of CPU-intensive I/O optimization.
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M:N application threading via
pthreads permitting threads to execute on multiple CPUs in a
scaleable manner, mapping many user threads onto a small number
of Kernel Schedulable Entities. By adopting the
Scheduler Activation model, the threading approach can be
adapted to the specific requirements of a broad range of
applications.
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Netgraph pluggable network stack
allows developers to dynamically and easily extend the network
stack through clean layered network abstractions. Netgraph nodes
can implement a broad range of new network services, including
encapsulation, tunneling, encryption, and performance
adaptation. As a result, rapid prototyping and production
deployment of enhanced network services can be performed far
more easily and with fewer bugs.
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TrustedBSD MAC Framework
extensible kernel security, which allows developers to
customize the operating system security model for specific
environments, from creating hardening policies to deploying
mandatory labeled confidentiality of integrity policies. Sample
seucrity policies include Multi-Level Security (MLS), and
Biba Integrity Protection. Third party modules include
SEBSD, a FLASK-based implementation of Type Enforcement.
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GEOM pluggable storage layer,
which permits new storage services to be quickly developed and
cleanly integrated into the AX6/vBSD™ storage subsystem. GEOM
provides a consistent and coherent model for discovering and
layering storage services, making it possible to layer services
such as RAID and volume management easily.
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AX6/vBSD™'s GEOM-Based Disk
Encryption (GBDE), provides strong cryptographic protection
using the GEOM Framework, and can protect file systems, swap
devices, and other use of storage media.
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Kernel Queues allow programs
to respond more efficiently to a variety of asynchronous events
including file and socket IO, improving application and system
performance.
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Accept Filters allow
connection-intensive applications, such as web servers, to
cleanly push part of their functionality into the operating
system kernel, improving performance.
3.0 AX6/vBSD™ provides many security
features to protect networks and servers.
The AX6/vBSD™ developers are as
concerned about security as they are about performance and
stability. AX6/vBSD™ includes kernel support for stateful IP
firewalling, as well as other services, such as IP proxy
gateways, access control lists, mandatory access
control, jail-based virtual hosting, and
cryptographically protected storage. These features can be used
to support highly secure hosting of mutually untrusting customers or
consumers, the strong partitioning of network segments, and the
construction of secure pipelines for information scrubbing and
information flow control.
AX6/vBSD™ also includes support for
encryption software, secure shells, Kerberos authentication,
"virtual servers" created using jails, chroot-ing services to
restrict application access to the file system, Secure RPC
facilities, and access lists for services that support TCP wrappers.
4.0 About Applications for CompAmerica's AX6/vBSD™
Operating System:
Experience the
possibilities with AX6/vBSD™
AX6/vBSD™, based on an
Enhanced
FreeBSD + CompAmerica's v-Extensions™ and 8th-man™ can
handle nearly any task you would expect of a UNIX®
workstation or server, as well as many you might not
expect from anything less than a high priced
Mainframe or Data Center Equipment.
It supports user task
aggregation and queuing to partition, in a way that
makes moving CICS and Server Farm processes to a
more seamless environment. It supports Full
Host Virtualization when run in "Virtual Hypersystem"
Mode under AX6, allowing virtual instances of
Windows XP, Windows VISTA and Linux to be installed
and run concurrently within AX6.
5.0 AX6/vBSD™ is a true
open system with full source code.
There is no doubt that
so-called open systems are the requirement
for today's computing applications. But no
commercial vendor-supplied solution is more open
than one which includes full source code to the
entire operating system, including the kernel and
all of the system daemons, programs, and utilities.
You can modify any part of AX6/vBSD™ to suit your
personal, organizational, or corporate needs
(however, your modifications are made at your own
discretion and without any obligation on our part to
maintain them for you).
With vBSD's generous
licensing policy, along with CompAmerica's
v-Extensions™, you can use AX6/vBSD™ as the basis for
any number of free or commercial
applications. These include those for clusters,
superclusters and grids.
6.0 AX6/vBSD™ runs
thousands of applications for FreeBSD.
Because AX6/vBSD™ is
based on 4.4BSD, an industry-standard version of
UNIX, it is easy to compile and run programs. AX6/vBSD™
also includes an extensive
packages
collection (software applications covering over
10,000 areas of software necessity) and
ports collection
(utilities and popular software suites converted to
run under AX6/vBSD) that bring precompiled and
easy-to-build software right to your desktop or
enterprise server. There is also a growing number of
commercial applications written expressly for AX6/vBSD™.
Currently, AX6™ is meant
for CompAmerica computers equipped with Intel Core,
Core Duo, Core Solo, Core 2, Core 2 Duo, Xeon 5000,
Xeon 5100, Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron/M, Via C3 and
AMD/AMD64/AMD X2 Codesets. Itanium2, Power PC,
Freescale x68k, Xcharge, ARM,
PowerMac, and other codeset versions are already
running and might be available as
future releases for the general public at a future
date, please inquire with your
CompAmerica sales representative at 908-931-1200.
Here are some examples
of the environments in which AX6/vBSD™ is used:
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Internet
services. Many Internet Service Providers
(ISPs) find AX6/vBSD™ ideal, running WWW, Usenet
news, FTP, Email, and other services.
Ready-to-run software like the
Apache web
server or the ProFTPD FTP server make it easy to
set up a business or community-centered ISP. Of
course, with AX6/vBSD™'s unbeatable
networking, your users will enjoy high
speed, reliable services.
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X Window
workstation. From an inexpensive X terminal
to an advanced X display, AX6/vBSD™ works quite
well. Free X software (X.Org™)
comes with the system.
nVidia
offers native drivers for their high-performance
graphics hardware, and the industry standard
Motif® and OpenGL® libraries are supported. Both
the KDE and
GNOME desktop
environments enjoy full support and provide
office suite functionality, with further good
functionality available in the
OpenOffice.Org and
TextMaker products.
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Networking.
From packet filtering to routing to name
service, AX6/vBSD™ can turn any PC into a
Internet firewall, email host, print server, PC/NFS
server, and more.
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Software
development. A suite of development tools
comes with AX6/vBSD™, including the GNU C/C++
compiler and debugger and the Perl scripting
language. Java™ and Tcl/Tk development are also
possible. Popular editors like XEmacs and more
esoteric programming languages like Icon work
just fine, too. And AX6/vBSD™'s shared libraries
have always been easy to make and use.
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Net surfing.
A real UNIX workstation makes a great Internet
surfboard. AX6/vBSD™ versions of
Firefox and
Opera are available for serious web users.
Surf the web, publish your own web pages, read
Usenet news, and send and receive email with a
AX6/vBSD™ system on your desktop.
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Education and
research. AX6/vBSD™ makes an excellent
research platform because it includes complete
source code. Students and researchers of
operating systems or other computer science
fields can benefit greatly from such an open and
well-documented system.
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And much more.
Accounting, action games, MIS databases,
scientific visualization, video conferencing,
Internet relay chat (IRC), home automation,
multiuser dungeons, bulletin board systems,
image scanning, and more are all real uses for
AX6/vBSD™ today.
7.0 AX6/vBSD™ is an
operating system that will grow with your needs.
Though AX6/vBSD™ is free
software and available with CompAmerica's exclusive
AX-SUPPORT option (warranty and support from
CompAmerica), it may also be user supported
software. Any questions you have, you can get
answered by CompAmerica at
AX6/vBSD™-questions@bellnac.com
or you can post to hundreds of Free BSD
developers and users simply by e-mailing the
freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org mailing list.
(Please do not contact the FreeBSD mailing list
about CompAmerica or its extensions or distributions
of vBSD themselves. The mailing list is for
technical issues.)
FreeBSD also has a
worldwide group of programmers and writers who fix
bugs, add new features and document the system.
Support for new devices or special features is an
almost constant development process, and the team
keeps a special eye out for problems which affect
system stability. FreeBSD users are quite proud of
not only how fast but how reliable their systems
are.
8.0 AX6/vBSD™ is
designed for the Internet
AX6/vBSD™ includes what
many consider the reference implementation
for TCP/IP software, the 4.4 BSD TCP/IP protocol
stack, thereby making it ideal for network
applications and the Internet. And with the EIGHT
GUI, one can have the best of all worlds - a skin
system that can make your desktop function similarly
to Apple Mac OS X, to Windows XP to Windows VISTA
(pending it's release, of course) for ease of
training users to use it.
9.0 AX6/vBSD™ supports
standard TCP/IP protocols.
Like most UNIX®, VMS®
and Windows® systems,
the AX6 operating system enables you to pull a
multitude of normally non-interoperating
environments together onto a single platform.
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Share filesystems
with Unix, NFS, NTFS, CDOS, OS/VS, Z/OS, by
direct mount or by remote access.
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Distribute network
information with NIS
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Support remote
logins and remote virtual sessions.
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Do remote SNMP
configuration and management
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Serve files with FTP
and Secure FTNap
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Support Global
Telecom Internet Linking for Satcom and Nap
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Resolve Internet
hostnames with enhanced DNS/BIND, and DNS/WHO
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Route packets
between multiple interfaces, including PPP and
SLIP lines, IPSEC Managed, and even NETBIOS
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Use IP Multicast and
Hypercast
services (the MBONE) for such things as
Datastorming and Streaming Multistreaming
Multileaving.
AX6/vBSD™ lets you to
turn a PC into a World Wide Web server or Usenet
news relay with included software. Using the
included SAMBA software you can even share file
systems or printers with your Win9x and NT machines
and, using either 8thman Web Drive and Web
Collaboration suite you can map the file server
spaces of AX6/vBSD™ * AX6/vBSD™to virtual hard drives on
your Windows 9x/NT/XP PCs; with the supplied PCNFS
authentication daemon, you can support machines
running PC/NFS. AX6/vBSD™ also supports Appletalk,
Applenet
and Novell client/server networking directly and
using an
optional commercial
package), making it a true "Intranet" networking
solution.
AX6/vBSD™ also handles
TCP extensions like the
RFC-1323 high performance extension and
RFC-1644 extension for transactions, plus SLIP
and dial-on-demand PPP, as well as "Full Broadband",
"Flavor Broadband" and "Trunkband" access wired,
fiber or wireless WAN. It is an operating system
suitable for a home-based net surfer as well as a
corporate systems administrator.
10.0 AX6/vBSD™'s
networking is stable and fast.
If you need an Internet
server platform that is reliable and offers the best
performance under heavy load, then consider AX6/vBSD™
which is 100% FreeBSD compatible, but includes a
highly proprietary Source Virtualization Hypersystem
design that is 100% compatible with all Open Source
and Open VMS code.
Here are just a few of the companies that make use
of FreeBSD, the over the counter free edition from
the original developers, every day:
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Walnut Creek CDROM
ran one of the most popular FTP servers on the
Internet, ftp.cdrom.com, exclusively on FreeBSD
for many years. It was a single FreeBSD machine
supporting 6000 connections, and capable of
transferring more than 30 terabytes (as of June,
1999; yes that is terabytes!) worth of
files every month to more than 10 million
people.
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Yahoo Inc.
runs the ultimate index of the Internet, serving
scads of daily net surfers with information
about the World Wide Web. Yahoo, as well the
companies that advertise on Yahoo, rely on
FreeBSD to run reliable and responsive web
servers.
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Netcraft
is the leading researcher of web server software
usage on the Internet. They use FreeBSD and
Apache to power their website, and FreeBSD/Perl
for all their Internet data collection.
AX6/vBSD™ makes an ideal
platform for these and other Internet services:
The BSD
ports collection contains ready-to-run software
that makes it easy to set up your own Internet
server.
11.0 High performance
and security.
The FreeBSD developers
are as concerned about security as they are about
performance. AX6/vBSD™ includes kernel support for
IP firewalling, as well other services, such as IP
proxy gateways. If you put your corporate servers on
the Internet, any computer running AX6/vBSD™ can act
as a network firewall to protect them from outside
attack.
Encryption software,
secure shells, Kerberos, end-to-end encryption and
secure RPC facilities are also available (subject to
export restrictions).
Furthermore, both
CompAmerica and the FreeBSD team is proactive
in detecting and disseminating security information
and bug reports with a
security officer and ties to the Computer
Emergency Response Team (CERT).
12.0 Online Manual
In addition to the addenda created by
CompAmerica in implementing its AX6/vBSD™operating system from BSD, since
AX6/vBSD™ is compatible with FreeBSD, you can secure helpful manual
and documentation information from the web as well as from the Hard
Drive of any FreeBSD or AX6/vBSD™AX6/vBSD™ operating system.
The online manual may be found at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi.
13.0 Pricing
The base releases of AX6/vBSD™are available at no charge by download by
authorized customers of CompAmerica. The customized components
from CompAmerica may only be used on a CompAmerica brand computer,
or on third party brands Confirmed by CompAmerica's Hardware
Compatibility Quality Assurance Program. CD copies including
documentation and packages are $49.95. 8thMan Basic is
an additional $49.95. 8thMan Collaborative is $149.95.
Additional CPU facilitators are $49.95 per pair of CPUs in a single
system. Additional Grid allowances are $149.95 per system
added to a Grid. The v-Extensions are presently available at
no charge by download ONLY. A "per service" charge model is
anticipated in late Q4 of 2006.
UNIX*SUPPORT from CompAmerica, which
includes extensive setup, installation and planned system
maintenance, as well as offsite/onsite security measures and
countermeasures is priced
at
FREE: <21 minutes per incident by
phone or web
$75/hour > 20 minutes per incident buy phone or web
$150/hour onsite service (2 hour minimum) for up to 2 personnel
CLASSIFIED Consultations: $150/hour per person.
14.0 Copyright & Licensing
The licensing agreements, Documentation, description of FreeBSD and
BSD4.4 and Open Source for BSD4.4 is held by the BSD Project under
it's Open Source and Licensing agreement (see links above) from the
Computer Systems Research Group, University of California Berkeley.
All other content is copyright 2005 CompAmerica.com. All
rights reserved.
Note: the AX6/vBSD™and vBSD logos and names
are Trademarks belonging to CompAmerica, as is the stylized Grizzly
Bear Mother and Son AX6/vBSD™ Logo Badge and other similar
representations, and may not be reproduced
without the express written permission of CompAmerica. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
CompAmerica's Industrial Computers run AX6/vBSD™, too! Visit
http://www.industrialcomputersystems.com. CompAmerica is a
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