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Windows (possibly running Linux or FreeBSD as a VM for some tasks) or a Macbook would be a better choice for a laptop-based photographic workstation. There are a few Mac specific applications (not all open source) and Windows specific applications (not all open source) which might cause you to...

A FreeBSD server or servers could be configured to do what you need done, with the appropriate system and application software choices. Certainly items 1 through 6 are easy enough to address although you might want to revise your plans a little. For example do you really want a FTP server...

Player? Do you mean Softsqueeze? What audio device do you have selected in Softsqueeze?

Slimserver is an audio-only media streamer; when streaming to a device that isn't emulating a Squeezebox basically you have access to a "consume only" stream at http://yourserver:9000/stream.mp3. You can control the stream using the web interface. If you choose to run Java on the iPad (not...

vermaden, only that I'm glad your job puts you in the group of employees who get to circumvent rules made for most users. Freedom is nice. Or maybe I meant that it is good to be one of the anointed few who enjoy FreeBSD. Either way... dzień dobry! (Sorry that's close to my limit for...

vermaden, it is good to be one of the anointed few, isn't it? :D

I can think of dozens of my clients where you'd be forced to use their choice, not your choice, of OS. Many, if not most, medium to large corporations dictate IT policy to a degree where the OS and application software an employee may use is simply not up for debate. There may be some exceptions...

Could be your file system choices have something to do with how you perceive performance. Adding RAM may help; tuning may help; tuning with more RAM would be optimum. I wonder how you'd perceive performance if you had a regular UFS file system, mirrored or not. ZFS / mirrored (but not...

I used to use grey-listing but found it was causing me more admin headaches. Some surprisingly large organizations run mail servers that don't behave as they should. policyd-weight (incorporating RBL checks, some country weighting... my users do not deal with China or Africa all that much) with...

Using PC-BSD doesn't gain one anything, since the underlying OS remains FreeBSD. Fairly identical installations of FreeBSD 9.1 beta on my laptop and desktop behave differently; fortunately my primary work machine, a non-portable workstation, resumes flawlessly. Given unlimited budget and...

My system is very fast but getting from a cold start to login to all applications loaded and the previous work state, for all applications, back in front of my eyes isn't nearly as fast as pressing a button or key, closing my eyes for a moment of contemplation, and opening them to find work just...

I don't have a good reason for using Postfix other than sendmail except for I found I could understand it more quickly, way way back when, so I continue to use it. On single user systems sendmail prevails.

Sure, there is no reason to create local system accounts for mail-only users. How you do this will vary some by MTA (mail server). How many users do you need to provide mail services for? Is this a personal project or something you are doing on a grander scale? Provide a few more details on...

neilms, what you envision is how I use FreeBSD (or Linux) on my desktop and laptop. I generally install X and xfce4 so that I'll have some useful system applets installed, and once in a while I'll start up xfce4, but my default session runs the x11-wm/dwm window manager, a very simple very...

Slimserver / Squeezebox server has been in ports for quite some time. The version there at present isn't completely up to date with Logitech Media Server but that may not matter to you. I have rarely kept pace with current, in recent years, and am not missing out on anything personally. See...

I was unable to get suspend/resume working reliably on my Thinkpad X220 despite some effort. There seem to be some out there that have had success with various versions of FreeBSD, KMS patches, etc, but I wasn't one of them and ultimately I needed a reliable suspend so have moved back to Linux...

+1. I'm considering going back to this arrangement myself on my notebook. Power management on Windows has, in my experience at least, been much better. I've also found that wireless performance has been more reliable on my X220 Thinkpad on Windows than with FreeBSD or Debian. Another reason...

What version of FreeBSD have you attempted to install? If you are running FreeBSD 9 and bsdinstall is not present then you might wish to consider a new installation since you have nothing to lose at this point. Versions older than FreeBSD 9 have the utility sysinstall. If that is your case...

It would appear that you did not configure your network interface(s) or somehow managed to avoid saving the configuration. As root run: bsdinstall netconfig ... and configure your primary network interface i.e. your wired or wireless interface that you intend to use. Ignore any other...

Is LoadPercentage in Win PowerShell something akin to Load Average for *nix? If so, and you find that acceptable, getloadavg from the stdlib is exposed in number of places: sysctl vm.loadavg vm.loadavg: { 0.26 0.15 0.10 } uptime 12:18PM up 15:43, 8 users, load averages: 0.32, 0.17...