Hour 3. A Basic Tour of FreeBSD
FreeBSD, like most UNIX operating systems, has an extremely rich set of commands and utilities. This rich set of utilities allows users to do things with UNIX that most other operating systems cannot do. This power is one reason that UNIX has remained so popular, more than 30 years after it was originally written. Unfortunately, this rich set of utilities and commands can make FreeBSD a bit overwhelming and bewildering to the new user. This hour provides a gentle introduction to the FreeBSD command line interface and how to perform some basic operations.
In this hour, you will learn the following:
The basics of the FreeBSD startup process
Logging in to FreeBSD
Your home directory and what it is for
The rest of the ...
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