I'm a relatively neophyte when it comes to *NIX. I've tried Red Hat and Mandrake, which AFAIK are the easiest distros to install and get up and running. However, since I bought an iBook, I've taken an ...

FreeBSD 14.4 simplifies notebook use with WLAN firmware in the installer, integrates more easily into the cloud, and prepares for FreeBSD 15.

ok so I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.3 onto my main server to replace the decrepit win2k installation. anyway, I've got 4.3 burned to a CD and ive got both my kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floppies. The ...

Last month I started a series in which I try out different operating systems with the aim of using them for my everyday work, and my pick was Slackware 15, the latest version of the first Linux distro ...

Among the legions of Linux users and admins, there seems to be a sort of passive curiosity about FreeBSD and other *BSDs. Like commuters on a packed train, they gaze out at a less crowded, vaguely ...

While the medium may have evolved from floppy disks to DVDs and USB flash drives, the overall process of installing an operating system onto a desktop computer has been more or less the same since the ...