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 ...

This wouldn't happen to be on an old cdrom or motherboard would it? The latest FreeBSD install CDs are setup to use a boot layout that doesn't emulate a floppy and many older machines don't have ...

Because we had to examine the server that had high reliability and demonstrated the best performance even under high load, as a result of searching variously,Yahoo! , Livedoor, 2channel and so ...

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 ...

When you install Mac OS X from CD, you are given the option to leave out the BSD subsystem relied upon by a number of system components and third party software. Norton Utilities 8.0 is one ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

To make FreeBSD easier to use in cloud environments, FreeBSD 14.1 now supports cloud-init. This is a widely used distribution method for the cross-platform initialization of cloud instances. It is ...

Despite its FreeBSD origins, I adore this virtualization platform ...