Chapter 6. Working with Applications

IN THIS CHAPTER

No matter how robust and efficient an operating system might be, it’s of little interest unless you can run useful applications on it. Fortunately, even on a free operating system like FreeBSD, you can get thousands of top-notch applications that cost you no more money than what you paid for FreeBSD itself (that is, nothing). This is the case whether you’re using the computer as a desktop workstation or a rack-mounted server—the applications available for either purpose are in many cases well-developed, full-featured ...

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