I have a spare computer
And I'm wondering should I mess around with FreeBSD?
Or maybe Gentoo and learn the inner workings of linux
After the novelty wears off, theres not much to do.
[QUOTE=FHamster;25987096]After the novelty wears off, theres not much to do.[/QUOTE]
What do you mean?
If you're unafraid of reading documentation and wrapping your head around new concepts, go for it. If you occasionally feel like banging your head against the wall, keep going. That's a sign you're going about things correctly.
Make sure you're comfortable with networking. Read some stuff beforehand. It's really a pain to set up a system you don't know fully if you can't get to online, human-readable docs from within the system.
I tried it out for a while, but once I got it installed and installed a couple packages I just didn't have anything I wanted to do with it.
So it would be better off just installing it on a Virtual Machine
Only if you are drunk. Then it's fun as hell.
[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;25991531]So it would be better off just installing it on a Virtual Machine[/QUOTE]
IF you're just dicking around, a VM is ALWAYS the best option.
yeah install BSD while drunk it's a good way to want to kill yourself
I installed bsd one time.
Then I typed cd and the command wasn't recognized.
Then I re installed unix.
True story.
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I think I know what I'm gonna do this weekend.
[QUOTE=Maccabee;26007797] I re installed unix.[/QUOTE]
you reinstalled what?
[QUOTE=nikomo;26032749]Why post about UNIX.
This is the Linux section.[/QUOTE]
I don't think that was Buttsex's point.
There isn't an OS called "Unix" anymore. There are only derivatives of it like BSD, Solaris, AIX, etc.
[QUOTE=Maccabee;26007797]I installed bsd one time.
Then I typed cd and the command wasn't recognized.
Then I re installed unix.
True story.
[editline]12th November 2010[/editline]
I think I know what I'm gonna do this weekend.[/QUOTE]
There's like, no way, any BSD would not recognize "cd". No way. It's literally built into the shell - even if you completely fucked up your $PATH, it would still work. Did you mistake the bootloader for a shell, by any chance? Or mistake "command not found" for "no such directory"?
[QUOTE=gman003-main;26037057]There's like, no way, any BSD would not recognize "cd". No way. It's literally built into the shell - even if you completely fucked up your $PATH, it would still work. Did you mistake the bootloader for a shell, by any chance? Or mistake "command not found" for "no such directory"?[/QUOTE]
cd is a part of the base bash utilities.
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and pretty much all Unix shells.
[QUOTE=Lego399;26040173]cd is a part of the base bash utilities.
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and pretty much all Unix shells.[/QUOTE]
No, it's literally a built-in command. You won't find a /bin/cd or a /usr/bin/cd - it cannot function except as part of the shell.
And for the record, most BSDs use the original sh, ksh, tch or ash, not bash. bash is too heavy and slow for the BSD philosophy.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;26022023]you reinstalled what?[/QUOTE]
I thought bsd and unix were two separate things. I guess linux.
[QUOTE=Lego399;26040173]cd is a part of the base bash utilities.
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and pretty much all Unix shells.[/QUOTE]
So bsd is unix? I think my idea of bsd was wrong.
I remember, I only installed a command line of bsd. I opted to not include any packages because I was just going to manually download a few packages because it was a server.
Does bsd have it's own package manager, and work the same way any other "distro" would?
[QUOTE=Maccabee;26055393]I thought bsd and unix were two separate things. I guess linux.
So bsd is unix? I think my idea of bsd was wrong.
I remember, I only installed a command line of bsd. I opted to not include any packages because I was just going to manually download a few packages because it was a server.
Does bsd have it's own package manager, and work the same way any other "distro" would?[/QUOTE]
BSD is not UNIX, but it's trying to keep it's, i don't know, traditions?
[QUOTE=Maccabee;26055393]I thought bsd and unix were two separate things. I guess linux.
So bsd is unix? I think my idea of bsd was wrong.
I remember, I only installed a command line of bsd. I opted to not include any packages because I was just going to manually download a few packages because it was a server.
Does bsd have it's own package manager, and work the same way any other "distro" would?[/QUOTE]
Well, there is no "BSD", unless you refer to "BSD 4.4", which is about a decade old, and doesn't run on x86 IIRC. There's four main variants of BSD: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonflyBSD. Each of them has their own package-management system.
And for the definitions of Unix, BSD and Linux, it goes like this:
Unix is a type of Operating System.
BSD are several OSs derived from the original Unix.
Linux is a reimplementation of Unix containing no identical code, but following the same API and design.
There are several variants each of BSD and Linux.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Unix_history-simple.png[/img]
[QUOTE=gman003-main;26057040]...doesn't run on x86 IIRC.[/QUOTE]
BSD 4.4 did have an x86 port
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;26063803]BSD 4.4 did have an x86 port[/QUOTE]
Which is why I added "If I Recall Correctly".
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