Some confusion about turning Unix from Windows

I believe that many friends Windows has been used quite familiar with, for a variety of reasons, want to try Unix. Unfortunately, the idea of Windows deep-rooted, which caused a lot of confusion to learn UNIX, often hit the wall. So I complained that Unix was too hard to learn, and that it was not clear enough to keep Windows in sight. Of course, if you are just a regular user, listen to music and play game irrigation, that big can not install what UNIX, because you do not need to go with Unix blindly toss. Windows so convenient, with how comfortable, why bother, to get the difficult configuration and "inexplicable" Unix? Speaking of which, many people can not read this article. This article is for the new handwriting that wants to study the same dish as me of UNIX, the aim is to take some detours in the course of learning. As far as my personal experience is concerned.

Originally heard of Unix, probably in freshman time. At that time, the system of super worship, that can control the system must be extremely big Daniel. One day accidentally heard that another operating system called Linux, is said to be similar to UNIX, and there is a thing called Redhat. Because I have a burner, and then in the school network somewhere down three ISO, carved into a disk, but have been afraid to try, because I do not know how to "put it" to the hard disk. In other words, does it have partitions? What do you do with partitions? Because I have been worried about the damage to Windows, so I put these several disks aside, this is a year.

Sophomore, Windows has played quite well, at this time the partition and so on also calculate quite understand it, and then from the corner of the drawer to find those several plates, intend to try. Specific how I also remember not clear, anyway is installed successfully, but the refresh rate is very low, the eyes simply can not stand, so not long after I deleted, or continue to my windows. Say it is not afraid of jokes, by this time I do not know Linux has a lot of distributions, think Redhat is Linux.

Sophomore summer, Windows I have been playing do not want to play again, and with the gradual understanding of UNIX, I began to have a bit of a good impression of this thing. So I searched on the Internet, because of the original feeling of Linux is very bad, so I did not look at Linux, but put on the BSD. BSD has three branches--freebsd, NetBSD and OpenBSD. At that time looked at NetBSD and OpenBSD feel very uncomfortable (hehe, in fact, look at Linux these words are not comfortable, this is also I did not choose Linux, one of the reasons, but now will not), so naturally chose the FreeBSD.

However, it's really hard for me to adapt to FreeBSD for someone with a very deep windows scenario. or back to the partition. What is the "zoning" of FreeBSD? It's been a long time since I got a little bit of a start when I borrowed from the library to "FreeBSD use encyclopedia". However, at that time did not know that this book is not really suitable for beginners. But at that time at home can only read this book, spent more than 10 days, the book read a ballpark.

After returning to school began to learn FreeBSD, but also intermittent, did not learn windows so much curiosity. However, although the progress is slow, the harvest is somewhat still some. In the midst of this a lot of forum technology, read a lot of technical articles, to tell the truth is really very good feeling. Now just a little summary, the following only take FreeBSD as an example, because I so far, after some comparison, still think FreeBSD the most suitable for my character. Well, now it's time to get down to it.

First of all, I must let you get rid of some misunderstanding. 或许你会有这样的不屑:UNIX那黑头土脸的 能算得上系统?能正常工作?能提供FTP和Web等服务?能受得了大负荷?我才不相信，我才不用那破东西!如 果你这么想，我可以很认真地告诉你，你错了!知道么， World usage the first Web server Apache was originally developed for UNIX, and the Super database Oracle was originally developed for UNIX, what is the operating system for high-end servers? It's unix!, not your imagination. Windows 2003!

Of course, I used Windows 2003 and used it to rack up quite a few services, and I know that 2003 is a good performance. But please believe that so many of the world's large sites are using UNIX, you say their administrators are so stupid? If Windows 2003 performance is really better than Unix, will they not use such a good thing? The fact is, they chose Unix. Don't believe it? OK, you can go here to see: http://www.netcraft.com, just enter a few large sites, such as www.google.com,www.yahoo.com, www.baidu.com, look at the OS part of what is written? or, Take a look at this URL: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html, what system is the longest running machine in the world? If you still insist that Windows 2003 cows, then OK, This article you also did not look down the necessity, then closes this webpage!