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FreeBSD 4.0 | 
 enlarge | From: Walnut Creek
Category: Software
Buy New: $28.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 23933
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Nt, Windows Me, Windows 95, Windows 2000, Unix, Macintosh, Linux
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5 x 1
Model: BSD
UPC: 747851023214
EAN: 0747851023214
ASIN: B00004T722
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
Reputed to be one of the most stable operating systems around and based on the highly refined Berkeley 4.4 BSD Unix kernel, FreeBSD is a worthy choice for computers that must have maximum reliability and robustness. Many of the Web's most heavily trafficked sites have FreeBSD on the back end. But FreeBSD is more than an ideal operating system for local area network (LAN) and Internet servers. This is the latest in a series of FreeBSD upgrades that have made this variety of Unix extremely competitive with Linux in the desktop workstation market. FreeBSD makes a very good desktop operating system if you're familiar with the Unix way of doing things. For a power user's product, FreeBSD installs remarkably easily on practically any IBM-compatible personal computer; the distributor claims it will even install and run on a 386SX. We had no trouble installing the operating system on a homemade Pentium II clone, and chose a workstation configuration from a menu of predefined setup schemes. Aside from the graphical workstation setup, the menu included options for network servers, software-development workstations, and a variety of other machine roles. (We later chose to configure the K Desktop Environment--KDE--on top of the X server.) The only problem we had was in getting FreeBSD to recognize the mouse, but this was resolved after a little experimentation. Installation is far from simple, but it's not nearly as bad as you may have heard. This package ships with a slew of goodies in addition to the kernel itself. On the four CD-ROM discs, you'll find support for lots of hardware (including RAID arrays, ISDN devices, and many network and video cards), all the standard network services, and more than 2,500 software packages. In addition to its numerous technical attractions, FreeBSD may be used free of charge by a business or individual. Buy this disk and use it to install FreeBSD on your whole fleet of machines--you'll still be in compliance with the license. Though it's not as user-friendly as Microsoft Windows or even the top-selling Linux distributions (Red Hat Linux and Caldera OpenLinux do more handholding), FreeBSD makes up for its sometimes terse demeanor with near-absolute reliability and a community of experts on the Internet. Set up FreeBSD, put it to work, and don't expect it to cause any trouble. --David Wall
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| Customer Reviews:
Expand your Linux capabilities with a UNIX OS. April 15, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
FreeBSD is currently on fBSD6 at this time of writing. fBSD is a UNIX-like operating system. The other popular UNIX-like operating system is Linux. I would not really recommend fBSD to a novice computer user who wants to learn a good UNIX-like OS because it does have a steep learning curve, but the payoff is worth that time involved. Instead I recommend that a good UNIX-like OS to experiment with is Linux because it seems to have a larger community and is not as difficult as fBSD to learn. I recommend you get Slackware for free from the internet which is a very high standard Linux distro that resembles fBSD. If you don't like Slackware then fBSD is not for you. Once you have come to terms with Slackware and have learned the Slackbook inside out and want to learn more, then the next best thing is to try fBSD. fBSD comes on three discs. Now you really want to start reading the fBSD handbook in usr\share\doc\en_US.ISO8859-1\books\handbook on CD2 first. Read it and see how much you can apply to Slackware. Automatically you will enhance your understanding of Linux just by doing this and is the major reason to have a look at fBSD. There is a lot of powerful stuff to learn in the fBSD handbook that is not found in the Slackware manual. If you feel you have mastered Slackware then maybe it is time for that fBSD install.
The first disc is just a boot disc. Once you have booted the install disc remove it or else you will get an error when trying to install. Insert CD1 and then change the boot settings before you install. Then you will install without errors. It will ask for CD2. You will be asked at the end of the install if you want to install additional packages. I recommend you install the lot and be prepared to swap from CD1 to CD2 to CD1 like insane. I strongly recommend that you look into VMware Workstation software that can help you learn this and maybe even run it all virtually on VMware installing from ISO but that is up to you. It is, however, the future.
Now you have a UNIX-like operating system that many would actually call UNIX. I would tend to agree that it is UNIX rather than UNIX-like and even Apple have used fBSD for developing and deloying OSX. Once you install it the rest is up to you. fBSD is not only a great OS but it will enhance your Linux skills tremendously. You might even end up making the switch.
A must for FreeBSD 3 Owners July 14, 2000
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
The wait for the new version of FreeBSD is over, this upgrade is great. As always is stable and the improvements SMP were something we really apriciate. The compability with Linux is much better but keeping with the tradition Berkeley Unix.
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