FreeBSD question

Jonathan Arnold jdarnold at buddydog.org
Fri Oct 27 12:41:38 UTC 2006


Nikhil Patel wrote:
> 1. I want to teach basic unix command, shell scripting to my students, does BSD is same like Unix?

Absolutely.

>   2. Can I install FreeBSD on Pentium PC that has 2 partition 1 has windows XP and 1 will have FreeBSD.

Yes.

>   3. Is installation process easy?

Not too bad, but you might check out PC-BSD.  It uses FreeBSD as a base, but
adds a very nice installer, some basic packages "out of the box" and a nice
package method called "PBI".

http://www.pcbsd.org

-- 
Jonathan Arnold     (mailto:jdarnold at buddydog.org)
Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog:
     http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/

UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.



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