as many or more, it also has a linux emulation layer to run linux apps
hdd partitioning is different...make sure to go into the bios and write down the correct drive geometry as your bios sees it (heads, sectors, cylinders ...in some order) because BSD relies on that info and no matter what it try's to figure out during install will probably be wrong, in which case you just enter it in by hand...no biggie if you have that stuff written down ahead of time.
Also, be warned, when you pick packages to install...it doesn't actually install them. It creates makefiles for them and you can either download the current sources from the net or off the cd later...i suppose that's to make for a quicker basic install...like I said a little different from linux distros...think of it sorta like gentoo portage.
