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Gonna load Free BSD-suggestions?

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pcmark

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At my new job, I've found that some Unix experience would help me out. So i'm going to load Free BSD 4.0 on one of my pc's. Any suggestions before I start? My system should be o.k. for running it,nothing fancy:
P-Pro 200 Dual Board
9.1gb Seagate Barracuda UW
64mb ram
4mb Matrox Mystique
Intel nic

I,ve got a single P=pro on my board now. What do I need to do if I want to add a second later,recompile the kernel? I'm going to use X-windows so I can have a gui. 😀
 
I would recommend to go for Linux instead.FreeBSD is not so easy to install as Linux.And I don't think that "recompile the kernel" applies to FreeBSD (anybody who knows better please correct me).Also there are more applications that you can use with Linux.In general FreeBSD is preferred for servers.
 
Neither, go BeOS! 😉 Of course, it won't get you UNIX experience. I would have to agree and go with Linux over FreeBSD.
 
FreeBSD, is, well, BSD - a full-fledged BSD4.4 UNIX. Linux has been made too easy 😉
FreeBSD is probably easiest of the *BSDs. If you really want to see how installing UNIX should be, fetch NetBSD or OpenBSD.

Linux Is Not UniX. Dot. It's just a clone. BSD is UNIX.
 
FreeBSD should be fine on your system. I also run it on a P-Pro200. It is a great OS.

UNIX has vast amounts of applications

I would advise you to get "The Complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey. Your install and configuration will be painless.

You will have to run an SMP kernel for SMP support. FreeBSD 3.2 and beyond supports SMP.
 
I might be wrong here, but doesn't the FreeBSD documentation say somewhere that it will run most linux apps as well? Or maybe it was the other way around, but I thought that FBSD could do it.
 
FreeBSD comes with a Linux compatibility package. Most Linux software will run on FreeBSD.

FreeBSD can run most programs built for SCO UNIX and UnixWare, Solaris on the i386 platform, BSD/OS, NetBSD, and Linux
 
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