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Good PC-BSD Guide Available

Posted by Hemos on from the read-and-learn dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "A very good and worth reading PC-BSD guide for the aspiring newbie is available at from a small site. We definitely need several of these to promote alternate OS. Well done."

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  1. It's an easy one, but.. by wknoxwalker · · Score: 4, Informative

    ..the best guide I ever found for a new [Free]BSD user was the handbook
    It's everything, all of it. I've a printed copy still sitting, bound on my shelf. It's also one of the top 10 words uttered in most #freebsd s:

    [newuser] So how can I uh...
    [guru] YOU CAN CHECK THE HANDBOOK

  2. Re:Fails to Impress by PygmySurfer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If someone can come up with a good reason to use BSD vice Linux, let me know.

    Some of the reasons I prefer FreeBSD to Linux:

    - Ports - No Linux package management system can compare with the beauty that is the FreeBSD ports collection
    - Clear separation between base system and add-on software
    - License - I prefer the BSD license to the GPL
    - init scripts - I like the /etc/rc.d system better than the different sets of scripts I've encountered on a Linux system.
    - filesystem layout - I've found the layout of the filesystem to be more logical than most Linux distros. This kind of ties in to my "separation of base system and add-on software" point above.
    - stable, secure.
    - easy updating with cvsup and make *world
    - I like the kernel configuration better. Linux' make config, make menuconfig, make xconfig are a pain. I'd rather just edit a text file, and go.

    Many of these things are just personal preference. Give FreeBSD a serious look sometime, you may like it better than Linux.

    Linux provides all the anti-MS geekiness I can stand at the moment.

    That's not a reason to use anything. "Linux users hate Microsoft. FreeBSD users love UNIX" (Shamelessly stolen from someone's .sig here, I believe).

  3. Re:important by rsax · · Score: 4, Informative
    OpenBSD runs on very few platforms and even then only in single-processor mode.

    It runs in SMP mode on the i386 and amd64 platforms.

    OpenBSD is updated every three or four months

    A new release of OpenBSD is made available every six months - no more, no less. Each release is supported for 1 year. Although 3.4 and 3.5 still seem to be receiving patch support in some cases.

    One factor that mars OpenBSD's fair weather is its primary developer, Theo de Raadt. This individual is known to be highly unstable and even destructive at times ....... snip, snip, snip, snip, snip ....... Though excellent for network equipment, developers may wish to remain wary of this platform and its creator.

    I hear this a lot but I don't understand this argument. If by "developers may wish to remain wary of this platform and its creator" you mean developers who want to contribute to the OpenBSD project itself then sure, you will deal with Theo. If by developers you mean, people who are going to use OpenBSD as a development platform, then who cares whether Theo has an attitude problem? You're just using the fruit of their (OpenBSD developers) labour. What you do with the source is your business and you don't have to get approval from them or something. I'm not a fan of the uber geek attitude like Theo's but his behaviour has opened more doors for Open Source when it comes to hardware manufacturers releasing documentation. The other BSD projects, and some Linux developers, for that matter seem to be fine using binary drivers and firmware. Atleast someone is taking a stand where this is concerned.