Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:55:44 -0400 From: Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> To: Efren Bravo <efrenba@dhl.co.cu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some doubts to start Message-ID: <45d750d205070505556cc552b0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42CA8139.9040701@dhl.co.cu> References: <42CA8139.9040701@dhl.co.cu>
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On 7/5/05, Efren Bravo <efrenba@dhl.co.cu> wrote: > Hello list, >=20 > How you will realize I'm new in unix. I've been reading about freeBSD > and I wish to know what is the meaning of: >=20 > 1-Font Server. > 2-NFS Server and NFS Server > 3-Ports >=20 > From freeBSD can I start a graphical environment like KDE and GNome. > Which of them would be recommended? >=20 > Best regards A font server is what it sounds like. It is a daemon that runs in a centralized location where you can install fonts and serve them out to multiple networked clients. A NFS server is a file server similar to MS Windows file sharing. NFS is in common use on Unix. Ports are a collection of 3rd party packages that you can compile and install via pre-written scripts on BSD. Generally you download a "ports tree" which is a directory tree full of these scripts. You find the one you want to install, cd to it's directory and type something like "make && make install" and it is downloaded compiled and installed in an automated fashion. There is more information on all of these things in the online FreeBSD handbook found here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Enjoy!
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