is it an easy thing to install monero on this os?
If it's easy, anyone have a walkthrough?
If you have never used a unix-like cmd-line OS, it's not going to be easy. Use the OS you know best - you're dealing with real money value - I wouldn't mix that with trying to learn a new OS.
Have used plenty of mint/ubuntu
Have never used bsd.
I'm using monero as an excuse to fix that
Well, then freebsd is no more difficult than most linux distros. Start here - http://www.freebsdmadeeasy.com/
For kicks I'm going to install it too - the interface is so simple under windows that I haven't felt the need to jump to fbsd, but I figure I can see what dependencies are needed.
- Install freebsd 10 amd64 - ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
- cd /usr/ports/ftp/wget
- make -DBATCH install clean
- cd /usr/ports/net/miniupnpc/
- make -DBATCH install clean
- cd /home/[yourusername]
- wget http://monero.cc/downloads/monero.freebsd.x64.latest.tar.bz
- sha1 monero.freebsd.x64.latest.tar.bz
- ::result should match 4bbee4349880171383ee4fee36ea9ad86201d9fd::
- mkdir bitmonero
- tar -zxvf monero.freebsd.x64.latest.tar.b
- mv simplewallet bitmonero
- mv bitmonerod bitmonero
- ./bitmonerod
Wait for the wallet to sync, open up a second session and run ./simplewallet
GJ devs!