FreeBSD has a reputation for being difficult, but using it as a daily driver showed me why that reputation misses the point.

Last month I started a series in which I try out different operating systems with the aim of using them for my everyday work, and my pick was Slackware 15, the latest version of the first Linux distro ...

I'm trying to write a backup script that will mount a windows share with samba in freebsd 5.1 to copy files over for backup etc.<BR><BR>The process works except it prompts me for a password to connect ...