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 taken an ...

This wouldn't happen to be on an old cdrom or motherboard would it? The latest FreeBSD install CDs are setup to use a boot layout that doesn't emulate a floppy and many older machines don't have ...

When you install Mac OS X from CD, you are given the option to leave out the BSD subsystem relied upon by a number of system components and third party software. Norton Utilities 8.0 is one ...

Among the legions of Linux users and admins, there seems to be a sort of passive curiosity about FreeBSD and other *BSDs. Like commuters on a packed train, they gaze out at a less crowded, vaguely ...

Step-by-step instructions for installing OpenBSD 4.0 for Windows admins trying to do it for the first time. I’ve already had a lot of positive feedback on my support for OpenBSD in my recent column.

While the medium may have evolved from floppy disks to DVDs and USB flash drives, the overall process of installing an operating system onto a desktop computer has been more or less the same since the ...

Last month I started a series in which I try out different operating systems with the aim of using them for my everyday work, and my pick was Slackware 15, the latest version of the first Linux distro ...

Because we had to examine the server that had high reliability and demonstrated the best performance even under high load, as a result of searching variously,Yahoo! , Livedoor, 2channel and so ...

For years now, Linux has been all the rage. But in recent times, there have been murmurings among some veterans — long-time users — after the introduction of systemd, the init system that seems to ...

To make FreeBSD easier to use in cloud environments, FreeBSD 14.1 now supports cloud-init. This is a widely used distribution method for the cross-platform initialization of cloud instances. It is ...