Hello FreeBSD

The elusive *nix. Nobody knows about it yet it is one of the most widely used server operating systems. The wikipedia entry mentions it as the unknown giant of the internet. Huge internet portals like Yahoo! run on it. Why is it that no one knows about this widely used OS?

Please remember that I am no *nix guru. I have used a lot of Linux distributions (mostly Debian based) in the past two and a half years. I don't know anything about programming but I don't mind messing around at the command line. In fact I am a medical student whose main hobby is Linux. Weird but true.

I have tried at least three times before to get FreeBSD installed on my laptop (a three year old Think Pad R60) but failed spectacularly all three times. I didn't like the ncurses like installation interface nor did I like the unfriendly options I had to select through. But this time I did it. OK, it's in a Virtual Box environment but still, come on, I've got a working FreeBSD 7.2 install.

All you need is lots of patience. First of all you need to read through the documentation available here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html

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