Building a FreeBSD desktop.

[doug at safeport.com]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote:

> I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there
> is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware
> comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts.
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> If don't want to make the full commitment to building a desktop, a good way to learn about FreeBSD is to install within a virtual machine. Either VMWare or VirtualBox will serve you well.
>
If you have a system you want to try you can also check out 
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html.