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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:40:11 -0400
From:      Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD question
Message-ID:  <ehsunb$rag$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061026231737.50843.qmail@web57002.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
References:  <20061026231737.50843.qmail@web57002.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

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Nikhil Patel wrote:
> 1. I want to teach basic unix command, shell scripting to my students, does BSD is same like Unix?

Absolutely.

>   2. Can I install FreeBSD on Pentium PC that has 2 partition 1 has windows XP and 1 will have FreeBSD.

Yes.

>   3. Is installation process easy?

Not too bad, but you might check out PC-BSD.  It uses FreeBSD as a base, but
adds a very nice installer, some basic packages "out of the box" and a nice
package method called "PBI".

http://www.pcbsd.org

-- 
Jonathan Arnold     (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog:
     http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/

UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.




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