Tonight I’m letting TiVo do it’s thing, snarfing up the Friday sci-fi lineup off the SciFi channel, while I do other things. In this case, installing a fresh copy of FreeBSD from scratch to use as a stand-alone server.
In the past, I’ve tried FreeBSD and found the experience slightly frustrating compared to Linux. However, after a number of emails with a FreeBSD-loving friend, he’s answered some fundamental questions and got me all excited about trying the new release of FreeBSD.
This is actually an interesting excercise for me. I want to see what it takes for a Linux person to setup and migrate a system over to FreeBSD. If all goes well, I should have a pretty exotic development server when I’m done.