http://www.freebsd.org/

- Justin

if i read it right freeBSD is unix not linux right?

Yea, it's based on the BSD Unix developed at Berkeley.

- Justin

hmmm, never tried "pure" unix before..... it says it runs programs built for linux, so thats a plus. as long as all the commands and everything are the same i should be good...

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though_there_is_good_support-for_bsd

Yea, there are some differences, but that's just like the differences between all the different flavors of *nix.

Most software built for Linux is *nix compatible, but there will always be a few that stand out.

I say you try it and see how you like it.

- Justin

yea im trying to download it now but theire ftp servers are being stupid...

im currently trying to find where they have the iso hidden at on their ftp server.... kinda makin me mad...

edit: nevermind! firefox didnt load the entire /pub directory last time, its in the root of /pub

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so ive heard

Brandon, check this out: http://caffeine.nu/

This is my buddies site, he's the one that turned me on to BSD in college. Click on the link labeled "Boxen" to see his computer collection...

- Justin

at the bottom of the page theres on of those test things and this one is "what is your souls trait?" if kasey did it it would prolly say "you are a fidget, you have no soul. go away!" :lol:

wow he has some old ass computers... the SPARC is only 40mhz! :rofl:

edit: christ its taking forever and a day to download freebsd! :mad:

finally downloaded it but this motherboard is a total POS, its so hard to boot from a cd compared to my Asus boards, plus ive had errors with alot of the installs :mad:

Gimme KNOPPIX anyday by far one of my favorites!

JW :D

i'm so glad i got your ASUS ;-)

yea they make great Mobos but theyre (recent) customer service sucks ass, i gotta send them the bios chip for my p4c800-e so i can take this POS out and sell it. you want another one billy? :D

and to JW, the only knoppix ive ever really used was Knoppix STD (security tools distro) and i thought that was good, today i just tried PHLAK (pro. hackers linux assult kit) and its about 20x better then Knoppix STD. its based off of a debian live distro, idk what its called though

it seems FreeBSD doesnt like USB keyboards. i told it to load with the usb drivers and it didnt work so i figured it was this stupid mobo, then i went home and tried it and the same thing happened :(

:google:

http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/04.10.shtml

- Justin

thanks bro, but i dont think i can edit the kernel args cuz this happens even before anything is even installed (the keyboard doesnt work on the second color screen that pops up)

Use Fedora Core 4, it used to be the free Red Hat distrobution. Mandrake is good also to give it a shot. ive worked with many of these linux distros for about 8 or 9 years so far.

i guess i cant try fedora again, i used core 3 and wasnt that impressed....

I guess they count on you having access to a ps/2 for setup purposes....

- Justin

guess so, even though the no. 7 option on the screen says something that amounts to "use USB keyboard" and it recognizes it but it wont work :confused: i had half of FC5 downloaded (the dvd) then the stupid internet here decided to kick me off and make me reauthenticate :mad: so i just decided to download the dapper drake beta (kubuntu 6.06) and see if it will run any better then what i have on here now idk if its the distro screwin up or the mobo bein ******...

I think I'm gonna fire up my old box tonight and get some Ubuntu action going on. I've been without *nix for too long....

- Justin