Note
This is mainly a note sheet for myself so I know what to do when installing FreeBSD, but I also wrote some additional information for Linux users that are interested in using FreeBSD and the philosophy as to why one would use FreeBSD over a convential Linux system. This is not complete, has parts borrowed from guides on the Internet (I do not claim originality for any of this), but should be enough to get started with FreeBSD.
BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) is a discontinued operating system that is a direct descendant of Bell Labs UNIX. Unlike GNU/Linux, which is a remake of UNIX and therefore called a "UNIX-like" system, mainline *BSD systems such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD can claim to be truly genetic "UNIX" (but not trademark UNIX). For brevity, I will just say "BSD" for the rest of this guide, but I will be referring to FreeBSD specifically.
In terms of the popularity of its distributions, the GNU/Linux distribution most used by the