“After a brief break from BSD, I had to return for more. This
week I will be continuing the series with FreeBSD. FreeBSD is
certainly one of the more popular BSDs. Many testimonials talk of
extremely fast networking, combined with super uptimes. Internet
power-houses such as Yahoo, Walnut Creek CDROM and even Microsoft’s
Hotmail swear by FreeBSD. Recently, FreeBSD running on
ftp.cdrom.com sent more than a terabyte worth of files in one
day. Other accomplishments include being used to render some
of the special effects in The Matrix. Clearly this is an Operating
System to be reckoned with.”
“I wanted to experiment a little bit and try my hand at
triple-booting between FreeBSD, Linux and Windows. I dreaded the
thought of attempting an FTP install over my 56K modem, so I
scoured the ‘net for a CD-R ISO image. Within moments, I found that
the FreeBSD team had created official images and they were readily
available on most of the mirror sites. Karma++ to the FreeBSD
folks!…”
“With everything ready to go I created a root and user account
and rebooted into FreeBSD. I started up X and I was grinning as a
pleasant desktop environment filled the screen. Not bad. There were
some problems with a couple of the KDE programs which still had
some Linuxisms, but all in all everything fit together well. I
immediately dropped into an Xterm to explore deeper.”