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Old 8th June 2008
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Originally Posted by EvilGardenGnome View Post
I was wondering which BSD would be a good introduction (i.e. easy on a newbie) and that won't push the system.
Your definition of "introduction" will matter. You might have in mind the following as an introduction (never safe to assume anything):

1) A *BSD "desktop."
2) A *BSD firewall/router/gateway/whateverelse
3) A *BSD server eg: web, email, dns, irc, etc
4) Other

Hardware requirements will have to be synced with the above.

My introduction to the *BSDs came by way of setting up No. 2. For that, a 486 DX4-100/16Mb RAM/1Gb HDD running OpenBSD 3.5 was enough. More than enough, even, for the task it was supposed to do at that time.

Good luck and have fun.
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