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 ...

Hi all\<BR><BR>I thought I'd spend a quiet afternoon installing FreeBSD 5.2 on my P-400. Instead I want to light my computer on fire and walk away. I go through the ...

Some time back, iTWire discussed the possibility of PC-BSD being used on the desktop instead of Linux. PC-BSD is more or less the same as FreeBSD; in the words of Kris Moore, it has "a vanilla FreeBSD ...

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.

In the past, many SMBs were content to let their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) handle e-mail services. But now they're interested in running mail servers onsite, due to the widespread adoption of ...

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 ...