In future, an alternative operating system – TwinCAT/BSD – will be available for selected Beckhoff Industrial PC platforms. This OS combines the TwinCAT runtime with FreeBSD, an industrially tried-and-tested and reliable open source operating system. With the foreseeable end of Windows CE, Beckhoff is presenting a successor at an early stage that combines the advantages of Windows CE – inexpensive use on all platforms – with the many advantages of the large Windows systems. In addition to a successor to Windows CE, Beckhoff thus also offers an alternative to Windows 7 and Windows 10.
In this webinar you will get to know the properties of TwinCAT/BSD and get an insight into its application possibilities. Following that, the first steps with and in TwinCAT/BSD will be presented, and the installation and updating of TwinCAT, functions and 3rd party tools will be illustrated. Finally, the speaker will demonstrate the backup and restoring of the system or of snapshots.