As the first original fork of the first complete and open source Unix operating system (386BSD) it continues the legacy that the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) began in 1978 until its final ...

Here's what you need to know. Linux is a built-from-scratch facsimile of Unix, but BSD is actually descended from Unix. Unix is an operating system developed at Bell Labs in the late 1960s.

Thus today I’m making the obvious first sideways step and trying a BSD-based operating system. These are uncharted waters for me and there was a substantial choice to be made as to which one ...

In fact, all you'll need is an old laptop, the FreeBSD operating system, and some open-source software that is included with the FreeBSD package. Your total cost could be as little as a few hours ...