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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you think of open-source OSes, you might think of Linux distros, but BSD-based systems have been around for a long time. Here are some of the best BSD systems that you can try that can give Linux ...

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 ...

This means that if you install an application on FreeBSD 10.0, and upgrade to 10.2, your application will still work, as nothing it depends on in the base system would have changed. Anything ...

You're probably sick and tired of running into the latest Windows security snafu. And you're undoubtedly painfully aware that most versions of Unix have their own ...