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 ...

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 ...

This wouldn't happen to be on an old cdrom or motherboard would it? The latest FreeBSD install CDs are setup to use a boot layout that doesn't emulate a floppy and many older machines don't have ...

FreeBSD is one of the most stable OSes on the planet. FreeBSD is also more challenging than Linux. You can download and install FreeBSD for free. I'm not gonna lie: I ...

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 ...

FreeBSD 15 is here: The BSD, primarily suited for servers and appliances, has made great strides – for its standards. This is likely due to the significant industry support, which clearly sees FreeBSD ...

This means that if you install an application on FreeBSD 10.0, and upgrade to 10.2, your application will still work, as nothing it depends on in the base system would have changed. Anything ...