People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating ...

FreeBSD has a reputation as a great server OS, but also as a difficult-to-install desktop. I decided to put that theory to the test with a modern version of FreeBSD in 2025.

FreeBSD doesn’t come with drivers out of the box in the way that a full-featured Linux distro does, so if you have something unusual then it’s up to you to find and install a driver.

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 ...

okay i have installed apache2 from source onto my freebsd setup.<BR><BR>i have ZERO problems with running the startup script, as root, from my /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ dir, but when i reboot it will ...

FreeBSD doesn't include a GUI desktop, but there is a way to install GNOME and give a user sudo privileges. FreeBSD is an outstanding platform. It’s about as reliable an operating system as you ...

User and Root Setup. Set up user accounts and passwords. Finish Installation & Reboot. Once installed, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD can be used similarly to Debian GNU/Linux but with FreeBSD's kernel at its ...