BSD Basics For The Newbie

qbasicprogrammer writes: "FreeBSD Basics on The O'Reilly Network covers some of the more useful FreeBSD commands that make computer life easier, including commands for things like scrolling through virtual terminals and checking date, time, and current working directory. Good read for the BSD neophyte."

well

[nomadic]

Mostly it seems like a good UNIX primer rather than a FreeBSD one specifically; most of the commands seemed identical, or nearly so, to those in Linux or any other UNIX/UNIX-like system. Anyone know any primers on the points where FreeBSD differs from Linux? I'm kind of interested in trying it out, but I tend to get easily irritated in working with another OS when a command doesn't work like I expect it (Solaris especially). Still, it's nice to see O'Reilly putting stuff like this online.
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Re:well

[SquadBoy]

Try this [earthlink.net] I and several other people I know use it on a regular basis.

Re:well

[Lazaru5]

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And it's about time too. Do you have any idea how often good, general Unix info is masqueraded as Linux info? And the worst part is, everyone buys into it, so that they think what they're learning is specific to Linux. It's evil I tell ya!
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These are all Linux commands too

[CentrX]

What's so special about that?

Chris Hagar

It's still a FreeBSD introduction

[scott4000]

A lot of people have commented that these commands work on other Unix-based OSes as well. Why shouldn't they? Whether the majority of these commands are specific to FreeBSD or not, it is still an introduction to the FreeBSD command line.

Re:These are all Linux commands too

[jhix]

They were BSD commands long before Linus started school. "The price of a quick lay is slave ownership" -- Thomas Jefferson

Adding Mac OS X to that table

[bee]

I wonder, when Mac OS X is released and added to that table, what it will look like?

Probably entry after entry of 'click on this' :-)

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That's not my point

[CentrX]

I'm saying this Slashdot thing is to Linux people, they don't need to learn new commands for BSD because the basic ones that were talked about are the same thing.

Chris Hagar

those are BSD *user* basics...

[frankie]

...how about an intro for someone who already knows the major Unix commands, but has never INSTALLED their own copy on a machine before?

I've used *nix accounts since the mid-1980's, but I was never an admin. I've got several Gb of unformatted space to play with on my Mac clone, and I'd like to try BSD, but I just don't know where to begin.