FreeBSD and Stuff

Ever since Kyung got me sign up for Linode, my love affairs with Linux has been steady. At first it was Fedora, then came Slackware, then boldly, I tried the hottest newcomer, Gentoo. It was the fun days of using a VPS to reinstall pretty much anything at any time with just 10 minutes or less. At the end, I settled with Slackware before moving on to ServerBeach for a dedicated server running Debian.

All is well with Linux, but then my cousin, Alex, started planting ideas about FreeBSD in my head (how it’s even closer to a true Unix system and that some of the most popular sites are powered by FreeBSD). At my last job interview with Vicarious Visions, I learned that a lot of their servers are also running on FreeBSD, and plus Mac OSX’s Darwin is based on FreeBSD anyway, I thought it’d worth my time to look into it.

Ever since I lost my job in January, I have had some time in my hands to educate myself on some stuff. But I feel like no matter how much I teach myself, the knowledge is not quite as valuable as if it was applied to realproblems in the field. Hopefully whatever I learned from FreeBSD will help me land my next job, whatever that may be.

I did a quick and dirty install (easier than Slackware, not quite near Fedora’s ease of use though). We’ll see what happens.

其實我在各種不同的 Linux 上花了不少心思去研究和摸索。當然如果在家裡自己一個一個版本的慢慢安裝就太浪費時間了, 還好 Kyung 之前有介紹我用 VPS (虛擬專屬伺服器), 在 VPS 上換裝任何 Linux 版本只要十分鐘! 所以前前後後試了不少種類, 分別有 Fedora, Slackware, Gentoo 和 Debian 等。但是最後還是用 Debian (ServerBeach 只有 Redhat 和 Debian 的選擇)。

後來祝平不斷的向我宣導 FreeBSD 的好處, 說他同學架的站幾乎清一色都是用 FreeBSD çš„… 剛好上上個禮拜去面試那家公司也有不少台 FreeBSD 的伺服器, 我今天心血來潮就試裝了。還好安裝的過程還算簡單 (比 Slackware ç°¡å–®, 但還是沒有 Fedora 好裝就是了)。