From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 15:23:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5DD16A401 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 15:23:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7555913C471 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 15:23:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19625F70; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:23:26 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id g1G763dW4UV9; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:23:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-114-230.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.114.230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CF65D82; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:23:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45E992E5.4060304@mac.com> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:23:17 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: josh@inthehouseshow.com References: <20070302222437.eidusqm1dog0c8s0@webmail.inthehouseshow.com> In-Reply-To: <20070302222437.eidusqm1dog0c8s0@webmail.inthehouseshow.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Digital Nation" Radio Show X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:23:27 -0000 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