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Why is FreeBSD not (more) like ....

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General questions about the FreeBSD operating system. Do not post questions that belong in a more specific category.
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Does FreeBSD /bin/sh use readline?

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Why would `make world` slow down with dual channel RAM?

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Place to ask questions about partitioning, labelling, filesystems, encryption or anything else related to storage area.
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Possibility to port snapd/flatpak for FreeBSD
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X.Org and Wayland on FreeBSD; installation & configuration.
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Dell Latitude D630 will not initialize nVidia 340 driver on 14.1-RELEASE

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AMD Thinkpad T14-Gen 1
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vlc vs mplayer vs mpv vs other?

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Embedded

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How to run FreeBSD on new boards built on Rockchip 35XX..
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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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Has BeagleBone Black been abandoned?

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FreeBSD Development

Kernel development, writing drivers, coding, and questions regarding FreeBSD internals.
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Contributing patch to FreeBSD

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Solved Is it possible to default to mksh, while automatically falling to sh

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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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Society and Addiction

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