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FreeBSD As A Workstation For UNIX Newbies

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 11, 2001 @07:25AM from the cpu-keyboard-os-go dept.

JT writes: "OSNews features an article introducing the FreeBSD operating system to newbies and Windows users. The article describes the installation, its GUI, application base and it has some more information about Unix and *BSD in general." Since Linux (at least the varieties with cute installation routines) is often presented as the *nix beginner's best choice, it's good to see articles like this one pointing out a broader range of choices.

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Re:FreeBSD myths. by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-12 04:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It just works? That's been my impression of linux. With *BSD, the kernel and userland are tightly integrated. With linux, the latest, snazziest kernel is duct tape'd to various gnu utilities. Documentation? Ha!