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I think the key is what is your goal?
If you want to learn I would recommend OpenBSD as the documentation to install, configure and populate with applications is concise and up to date Slackware is in many ways similar although I do not think the documentation is as good. Slackware has the advantage that all software (not just the base system) has security updates http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386 OpenBSD used to have security updates for secondary packages but this was too much given the number of platforms supported by OpenBSD. In my opinion PC-BSD is the BSD equivalent of SimplyMepis. You are likely to get a working KDE desktop but you will not lean much about BSD unix in the process. Last edited by shep; 21st July 2010 at 02:52 AM. Reason: Added last paragraph |
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Don't get me wrong, pcBSD is great but I'm talking pure BSD as a newbee who can only guest things out. Last edited by sharris; 23rd July 2010 at 12:27 PM. |
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Most of it is fairly typical unix stuff. Different branches in the family tree and extended cousintry have silghtly different ways of doing things: compare FreeBSD, BSD, and System V style init systems. The problem with PC-BSD from that perspective, is if you treat managing the system like a FreeBSD system: you will create more work for yourself. Avoiding that, tends to require knowing both the FreeBSD and PC-BSD portions. You can however learn the FreeBSD side of things from PC-BSD, just be careful what you dick with and note or backup important changes.
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Deal with or di*k with... heehee, what a typo. I feel I really bit off more than I can chew fooling with virtual-machines. I had more fun learning stuff like PF and lots of FreeBSD commands. Virtual-machines need to come out of a box ready to run other than stealing all of my future BSD and web programming time. I had pcBSD installed on primary-3. Now that I think about it that what I should been trying to vBOX with all along but now I am burn-out and I read many have been having big bugs problems with it, mostly un-resolved unless you using pcBSD 7.1.1 and an old vBOX. Whatever the case I will never give Windows Primary-1 again. FreeBSD lives on my Primary-1 forever so they best get their act together and come off the bull-sh*t because I can live with-out Windows. Been 4 months and counting
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