Netbooting and Diskless Workstations with FreeBSD

sootman writes "O'Reilly's ONLamp site has a neat two-part series on building a netboot server and diskless workstations with FreeBSD. Nothing too earthshaking but it's always an interesting topic and it's nice to see a new writeup on it every so often."

Great stuff

[ulib]

... and here [onlamp.com]'s a handy collection of all BSD-related articles published on onlamp. :)
(I'm posting it because the link is not obvious).

err... the best what? [Re:BSD == good]

[ulib]

... I'm gonna be kind, even if sb who calls FreeBSD a "Linux distribution" wouldn't really deserve it. ;-)

a) FreeBSD is Berkeley Unix, Linux is a Unix-clone. They look similar to the average user, but deep inside they're two quite different things.

b) the media tend to identify Open Source OS's with Linux because of the community hype - GNU & Linux are about politics as well, thus they attract a wider range of people. BSD is a purely technical and academical thing. These different commitments are well reflected in the 2 licenses: BSD [freebsd.org] (much simpler and less restrictive) and GPL [gnu.org] (an anti-proprietary political manifesto).

c) FreeBSD is quite widely used and, notwithstanding the lack of hype, its user base is growing pretty fast.

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD [netcraft.com]