On 9/8/2011 6:20 PM, John Shaver wrote: > This thread interests me. I have never really tried FreeBSD. Does it > have different distros the same way linux does? Where would someone > recommend I start if I wanted to play around with it and familiarize > myself with it? > It has several flavors with their own mentalities and goals, much like Linux flavors. The ones I know of are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. I've only messed with Free and Open, personally. Open is intriguing to me because of their contribution to the Linux world with things like OpenSSH.
You can typically just download one and install it like you would Linux. There's a lot of information out there on it, books, websites, youtube videos, etc, etc. I've enjoyed using it as a router in the past, and both m0n0wall and pfSense are based on FreeBSD if I recall correctly. I can't recall if they have a LiveCD/DVD version officially released, but someone's sure to have made one. -Tod Hansmann /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
