Chapter 8. Working with the Shell

IN THIS CHAPTER

Part I, “Introduction to FreeBSD,” walked you through the installation and setup of FreeBSD, and Part II, “FreeBSD on the Desktop,” covered the graphical user environments (GNOME, KDE, and other window managers) that help make FreeBSD run like the desktop operating systems available in the consumer market. Although a user can do great things within the graphical world of X11, so far this book has given only minimal attention to the more austere and direct method for unlocking the ...

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