FreeBSD: It’s Not Just for Servers Anymore

“Well, that’s all well and good,” you might be saying. “But I don’t need any of that stuff. I’m not setting up a server or anything.”

Well, don’t put this book back on the shelf quite yet. There are plenty of workstation uses for FreeBSD that you might also be interested in:

  • Developing and testing websites— The days of web pages that display static HTML content are history. These days, websites that are competitive in the marketplace use server-side technologies such as CGI, embedded scripting, and database back-ends to display content that is dynamic and interactive. This means that locally testing your website by loading the pages into your browser from your hard drive are also long gone. To design ...

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