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Hello! I am new to these forums, so please forgive me if I am posting this in the wrong section.

I am considering BSD as a Desktop operating system. I am a Linux user; but I would not consider myself technical at all. Would BSD be a good choice as a Desktop OS? What would some common issues be? What are the pros and cons of BSD over Linux? What are the similarities? Also, which BSD distribution would be best to use? I hear lots of good things about FreeBSD.

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uname

UNAME(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  UNAME(1)

NAME

     uname -- Print operating system name

SYNOPSIS

     uname [-amnprsv]

DESCRIPTION

     The uname utility writes symbols representing one or more system characteristics to the standard output.

     The following options are available:

     -a      Behave as though all of the options -mnrsv were specified.

     -m      print the machine hardware name.

     -n      print the nodename (the nodename may be a name that the system is known by to a communications network).

     -p      print the machine processor architecture name.

     -r      print the operating system release.

     -s      print the operating system name.

     -v      print the operating system version.

     If no options are specified, uname prints the operating system name as if the -s option had been specified.

SEE ALSO

     hostname(1), machine(1), sw_vers(1), uname(3)

STANDARDS

     The uname utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').	The -p option is an extension to the standard.

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