Chapter 11. MAKING YOUR SYSTEM USEFUL
Unlike operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux, which tend to throw absolutely everything you might ever need into the base install, FreeBSD systems are minimal—and that’s a good thing. Windows systems in particular have thousands of objects in the main system directory and just about every shared library you can imagine. Whenever you boot the system, Windows loads many of those libraries and objects into main system memory. I don’t know what each object is for, but I guarantee that I will never use many of them—when I use Windows, it’s only for SSH and Firefox. All these objects do for ...
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