New FreeBSD

Brought up a new FreeBSD 5.1 box today … I downloaded the ISOs yesterday while Mike was finishing up the paper and I was napping … Looks like there’s some nifty new features in it, and it looks like it may be going in the route of becoming more desktop friendly … I often wondered why the Toaster people were not into running on 5.1 and remaining at the 4.8 level … I’m thinking that FreeBSD is sort of making a server/workstation branch here, but I don’t know .. That’s simply my own observation … Was a bit of a pain to get a MySQL server running on 5.1 but I got it eventually … I am going to build the new web site I got for a customer and then I may start moving all of the sites I design over there … Running them on the Windows boxes just seems so foolish …

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