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Can you provide any good entry points to the BSD world?
by chrisper 10y ago
Can you provide any good entry points to the BSD world?
- Cieplak 10y agoAre you coming from Linux, Windows or OSX?
- chrisper 10y agoI am very good with Linux and Windows. So either of the two are fine.
- Cieplak 10y agoI would perhaps spend some time running it in a VM, and then if you decide you like it and think it's worth the time investment, maybe try installing it on your laptop. I run it on a Thinkpad X1. The handbook is a great resource: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ The book, Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is quite good if you like technical reading.
- JdeBP 10y agoThere are several, depending from what one wants. TrueOS, formerly known as PC-BSD, is a good entry point if one wants a desktop-style system. Or one can try vanilla FreeBSD. Or OpenBSD. Have some user guides and Handbooks to read: * NetBSD Guide: https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/ https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/ * FreeBSD Handbook: https://freebsd.org/doc/handbook/book.html https://freebsd.org/doc/handbook/book.html * DragonFlyBSD Handbook: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/ https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/ * TrueOS User Guide: https://www.trueos.org/handbook/trueos.html https://www.trueos.org/handbook/trueos.html * PC-BSD User Guide: http://web.pcbsd.org/doc-archive/10.1.2/html/pcbsd.html http://web.pcbsd.org/doc-archive/10.1.2/html/pcbsd.html (viewable off-line directly in both PDF and HTML forms in /usr/local/share/pcbsd/doc/)