June 2006
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
29h 12m
English
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Chapter 6. Working with Applications
IN THIS CHAPTER
No matter how robust and efficient an operating system might be, it’s of little interest unless you can run useful applications on it. Fortunately, even on a free operating system like FreeBSD, you can get thousands of top-notch applications that cost you no more money than what you paid for FreeBSD itself (that is, nothing). This is the case whether you’re using the computer as a desktop workstation or a rack-mounted server—the applications available for either purpose are in many cases well-developed, full-featured ...