So now you have installed FreeBSD, and it successfully boots from the hard disk. If you’re new to FreeBSD, your first encounter with it can be rather puzzling. You probably didn’t expect to see the same things you know from other platforms, but you might not have expected what you see either: | 2 April 2003 17 00 47 The Complete FreeBSD page 111 In this chapter Users and groups Gaining access The KDE desktop The fvwm2 window mm r Changing the X display Getting a shell Files and file names Differences from Microsoft The Emacs editor Stopping the system The tools of the trade So now you have installed FreeBSD and it successfully boots from the hard disk. If you re new to FreeBSD your first encounter with it can be rather puzzling. You probably didn t expect to see the same things you know from other platforms but you might not have expected what you see either FreeBSD ttyv0 login If you have installed xdm you ll at least get a graphical display but it still asks you to log in and provide a password. Where do you go from here There isn t space in this book to explain everything there is about working with FreeBSD but in the following few chapters I d like to make the transition easier for people who have prior experience with Microsoft platforms or with other flavours of UNIX. You can find a lot more information about these topics in UNIX for the Impatient by Paul W. Abrahams and Bruce R. Larson UNIX Power Tools by Jerry Peek Tim OReillc and Mike Loukides and UNIX System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth Garth Snyder Scott Seebass and Trent R. Hein. The third edition of this book also covers FreeBSD Release . See Appendix A Bibliography for more information. If you ve come from Microsoft you will notice a large number of differences between UNIX and Microsoft but in fact the two systems have more in common than meets the eye. Indeed back in the mid-80s one of the stated goals of MS-DOS was to make it more UNIX-like. You be the judge of how successful that attempt was but if you know v 2003 04 02 06 41 29 111 2 April 2003 17 00 47 The Complete FreeBSD . tools page 112 The Complete FreeBSD 112 the MS-DOS command-line interface you ll notice some similarities in the following sections. In this .
