I will install freeBSD tonight. It will be my first touch on UNIX. To speed things up, I want to ask you for some newbie tips on the freeBSD installation.<P>I had a very short look into the installer ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Running FreeBSD on the server: a sysadmin speaksThis part of the system is distributed in releases. Minor releases are usually every six months or so with a major release approximately every 2 years.

For years now, Linux has been all the rage. But in recent times, there have been murmurings among some veterans — long-time users — after the introduction of systemd, the init system that seems to ...

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 ...

This week Gibbs adds another highly recommended book to the IT library and reviews a Bluetooth cell phone headset that is outstanding. The subtitle of this book is A Modular Approach, which is exactly ...