Intro to my BSD Blog

Okay people here goes. Well most of you guys probably know that BSD is really a remarkable line in *NIX Operating Systems. Yahoo uses BSD machines in the background. Solaris, Mac OS Darwin, and various other BSD's e.g. Free BSD, NET BSD, OpenBSD, etc are derived from here. Its strong points are security, stability and they do things in a really organized manner. BSD has a more stable file system and a better Network Stack. I wont go on about the pros and cons about Linux and BSD, I expect you guys to Google for it.

However FreeBSD features the following mechanism:-

1. Installation from source /BSD
2. Installation from Linux Source using the ports(maintained in /usr/ports/) collection. Ports basically contain files containing information on how to compile a particular source highlighting the differences. i.e. on line l do this instead of this. You can read more on this in the FreeBSD handbook . The list of FreeBSD ports is availible here.
   
3. You can run BSD binaries as well as Linux binaries. The motivation behind this is to enable BSD to run commercial applications developed for LINUX that were made availible in the Binary Format.
   
4. I'm using PC-BSD. I can download and installed .pbi files just like you can install .msi installers on windows. Expect these files to be huge. e.g. 70-80 Megs for KOffice. You can find .pbi files at pbidir. You have uninstallers installed as well and you can list and remove installed pbi's just like using add/remove programs under windows.
   

* Note : PC-BSD was rated as the most user-friendly OS for beginners by osweekly.

Well now that we've finished an informal introduction about BSD, I'll come over to the main purpose of this blog. This blog is mainly intended to spread information and facts about BSD, document the problems I face and their solutions just so that knowledge can be spread in a more efficient manner over the internet. I would use a website but Blogging does all the formatting for you.

Best of Luck and Happy BSD'ing