Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:23:17 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: josh@inthehouseshow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Digital Nation" Radio Show Message-ID: <45E992E5.4060304@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20070302222437.eidusqm1dog0c8s0@webmail.inthehouseshow.com> References: <20070302222437.eidusqm1dog0c8s0@webmail.inthehouseshow.com>
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josh@inthehouseshow.com wrote: > My name is Josh Smith, I am the producer for the "Digital Nation," radio show, > based out of Orlando, Fl. "Digital Nation," is about everything electronic and > I would like to know some things about FreeBSD. Does a drive need to be > partitioned to run it? Can it run on a partitioned drive, while the other > portion runs Windows or Mac OSX? It's common for one to set up two partitions if you want a machine to run both FreeBSD and some other OS, yes. However, it's possible to run FreeBSD inside a machine emulator like VMWare, although doing so is not going to perform quite as well as running it on the hardware directly. > How secure is it? What kind of computer will ideally run it? Ups and downs? FreeBSD is very secure by most standards, although OpenBSD has a better security track record. The potential security risks involved in running FreeBSD have more to do with which services a machine runs, rather than what your OS is. FreeBSD runs on most Intel/AMD hardware out there, and also supports some other architectures like SPARC and PowerPC. Something like a 486-grade machine with 24MB to 32MB of RAM is probably the minimal spec. Having more memory will help, of course, if you are running a GUI or lots of services. -- -Chuck
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