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 ...

I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.6, but having some problems with the installation process. I have Bootable CDs and Floppies. I have tried booting off the CDs and the floppies. The problem is that ...

ZDNET's key takeaways FreeBSD is one of the most stable OSes on the planet.FreeBSD is also more challenging than Linux.You ...

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 ...

FreeBSD 15 is coming, maybe at the end of this year – and along with other improvements, it may finally offer the option of installing with a graphical desktop.… The latest status report from the ...

FreeBSD doesn't include a GUI desktop, but there is a way to install GNOME and give a user sudo privileges. FreeBSD is an outstanding platform. It’s about as reliable an operating system as you will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Step-by-step instructions for installing OpenBSD 4.0 for Windows admins trying to do it for the first time. I’ve already had a lot of positive feedback on my support for OpenBSD in my recent column.

BSD, or Berkeley Software Distribution (aka Berkeley Standard Distribution) is a discontinued operating system that was based on Research Unix. Originally called Berkeley UNIX, BSD was first developed ...