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On the same machine (Lenovo ThinkCentre M600 Tiny Thin Client N3000 terminal), installing pure FreeBSD 14.1 (UFS fs) and Debian (EXT3 fs) distributions, the disk performance results are dramatically different. Result from dmesg (FreeBSD): ada0 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0 ada0...

Folks, I'm thinking of buying a new notebook computer (HP Pavilion Aero) which ships with AMD Ryzen 5-8640U processor. I was wondering if FreeBSD 14 or 15 supports it, especially WiFi and graphics card (Radeon). I'm new to FreeBSD, so any links for supported hardware and/or links to build...

We - a group of people involved with the FreeBSD community - would like to propose the formation of a new working group dedicated to improving the functionality and usage of FreeBSD on desktop and laptop environments. Objective The primary goal of this working group is to enhance the user...

Hello people, at the end of 2023 I started my journey of no return with FreeBSD because I got tired of Linux and wanted to experiment with this wonderful OS. I have already tried GhostBSD, NomadBSD... But the problem is that they are easy to install, I want someone to give me a guide to install...

Hi, I'm trying to duplicate a installer on a USB stick... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prior to FreeBSD 14.1 I have used this procedure in the past on older versions of FreeBSD without problems, for example to duplicate a MacOS installation...

Hi guys, so i have an OVH dedicated server, i installed Proxmox on it. I created 2 VMs, one freebsd VM as a firewall / NAT gateway and one Debian server in the same lan as the firewall with the FreeBSD as Gateway. On the FreeBSD VM there are 2 net cards, one for the WAN, one for the LAN. From...

Hi, how can i install swi-prolog on FreeBSD? i would like to use prolog with php.

Hello FreeBSD fellows. I have an authoritative nameserver (PowerDNS) server running as: ns1.mydomain.com, hosting the DNS records of my domains, and communicating with my secondary/slave nameserver, for DNS record changes&updates. I've implemented PF, however I'm not really sure if I managed to...

Hello. I'm preparing to manage few VMs under FreeBSD bhyve, and focusing on implementing a good set of PF rules on the main host machine. I wanted to ask for your opinions, is it wise to have a rule like; pass in/out quick on vm-publicswitch all (vm-publicswitch containing all the IP ranges...

Greetings friends... I am adjusting the Conky configuration file and I have it almost ready, but I don't know how to put the name of the network card so that its name is automatically selected. Thanks in advance for your help! This is the specific part of the problem: ${if_up re0}\...

Hello. I'm looking to install FreeBSD (Hopefully with KDE) onto my Thinkpad X1Carbon Gen 6. (Samsung 980 SSD/16 GB ram) I'm mostly familiar with linux in general and have tried different distros. I currently run Arch (With KDE and btrfs / not encrypted) and it definitely runs great on my laptop...

Will users have to install ports tree while installing FreeBSD? Because portsnap was deprecated

hello on my server clang 11.0.1 version is installed but my project is compiled with clang14, when I write the command " pkg install clang14 " I get an error like clang14 not found. please help me solve this problem, thank you.

In which order should one update/upgrading the FreeBSD components [freebsd (components, world and kernel), pkg, ports] to preserve the integrity of the system?

Hello forum! Today I decided to try putting FreeBSD on my Athlon x2 computer. Motherboard: gigabyte m68mt-s2 Video card: nvidia geforce 8600 g Processor: AMD Athlon II X2(with integrated video core) Network card: nvidia. And I think it is still worth specifying that when you start the PC only...

I've worked in Linux for about 12 years. I did work at one company with a handful of FreeBSD servers, but it was really rare I ever got to touch one. I'd like to be working on FreeBSD full time, but it seems those jobs are a lot harder to find. I'm waiting to see if this port I converted from...

Hello, a while ago I tried to install FreeBSD on my 2006 computer (which model is an HP Compaq 6720s) although I have a problem, and that is that when the installation starts, when I click "boot multi-user" or "boot single -user" then after those numbers appeared below the ASCII art, the screen...

With the release 14.0, I plan to switch to FreeBSD as my main OS. Unfortunately, some of the programs I use work only on Linux, so I will still have to boot to Linux from time to time. I am wondering how to structure my storage. In my notebook, I can place 4 disks in total, 3 SSDs (2 NVMe M.2 +...

I have a Mi wireless usb mouse and it works just fine on both windows and Linux but in FreeBSD 14.0Rc3 XFCE desktop I have one issue that is when I click to drag Item it loses the grep and it behaves as if I have moved the cursor without dragging the icon or the window that I am trying to move...

Activitywatch is a program that is used to track the amount of time that is spent on a computer, they only officially have support for Windows, Linux and MacOS. I have installed the Linux Binary compatibility layer and installed activitywatch under /compat/ubuntu/opt/activitywatch, when I run...