On 7/5/05, Efren Bravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > How you will realize I'm new in unix. I've been reading about freeBSD > and I wish to know what is the meaning of: > > 1-Font Server. > 2-NFS Server and NFS Server > 3-Ports > > From freeBSD can I start a graphical environment like KDE and GNome. > Which of them would be recommended? > > Best regards
A font server is what it sounds like. It is a daemon that runs in a centralized location where you can install fonts and serve them out to multiple networked clients. A NFS server is a file server similar to MS Windows file sharing. NFS is in common use on Unix. Ports are a collection of 3rd party packages that you can compile and install via pre-written scripts on BSD. Generally you download a "ports tree" which is a directory tree full of these scripts. You find the one you want to install, cd to it's directory and type something like "make && make install" and it is downloaded compiled and installed in an automated fashion. There is more information on all of these things in the online FreeBSD handbook found here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Enjoy! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"