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How does FreeBSD fit this specific use case?

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Solved Is SmartArray P840 supported by FreeBSD?

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Other Desktop environments installation script

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WiFi speed on Thinkpad

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Should I use Wine, Wine-Proton or Wine-Proton-GE ?

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Section for questions regarding all sorts of emulation and virtualization, like bhyve, VirtualBox, qemu and jails. As guest and as host.
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bhyve How to boot a bhyve UEFI FreeBSD guest w/framebuffer boot menu graphics?

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Jails losing their IP address overnight on ec2

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IPFW dtrace: failed to compile script /dev/stdin: "/usr/lib/dtrace/ipfw.d"

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Embedded

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Simple Status Light to Monitor a Raspberry-Pi 1

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FreeBSD on Alpha, PC98, PowerPC or Sparc64. This forum is also for questions related to porting FreeBSD to new architectures.
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AARCH64 FreeBSD on QNAP TS 433-4G anybody ?
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FreeBSD Development

Kernel development, writing drivers, coding, and questions regarding FreeBSD internals.
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Using VMM as standalone hypervisor

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Python The sad state of Python on Freebsd

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Off-Topic

Have some non-FreeBSD related questions, or want just to chit-chat about anything that is not related to FreeBSD? This is the forum for you. Note: this is NOT a forum for technical questions about non-FreeBSD operating systems!
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Solved Is Rust now killing C++ and eventually C with it ?

Howtos and FAQs (Moderated)

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Compile and Build a small Custom Kernel tailored to a specific AMD64 PC System

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