BSD is configured for internet hosting, web hosting, and hosting many servers on one system. It is the first OS to have added an internet protocol. BSD OSes have a very strongly enforced time-sharing system, which makes them most useful where resources are shared between processes.

As a comparison, the Linux OS is known to be preferred for single-task processes such as supercomputers and desktops. The effective BSD multi-tasking forced-interrupt part of timesharing gets in the way of dedicated single processes.

BSD includes a ‘Jails’ system which is somewhat analogous to Linux Containers —except with additional security and flexibility in implementation.

More Information:

• FreeBSD (Wikipedia.org)
• OpenBSD (Wikipedia.org)
• NetBSD (Wikipedia.org)
• Comparison of BSD operating systems (Wikipedia.org)