Some High Points:
This distribution of BSD can run
on most PC's, these include:
Dec (Compaq) Alpha
AMD64
Intel EM64T
IA-64
Sparc64
Documentation:
There are several books written
on BSD commands, file systems, and scripts available.
FreeBSD is arguably the best documented
of all the BSD's.
Take a look at the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
BSD Links:
My Personal Webpages:
How to Finish a Basement
http://www.geocities.com/freebsdstable/basement/basement.html