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I have been pondering for a while now which desktop environment FreeBSD users consider the best choice for today and in the future. It looks as though desktop environments created primarily for Linux such as Gnome and KDE may become more difficult, if not impossible to keep up to date for...

Hello everyone :) I'm a fresh user of FreeBSD from Windows. I installed the version 10.3 on my new computer by livecd which I burnt. I need to install a driver for my network card (Qualcomm Atheros - QCA6174), but this is ath10k and the FreeBSD port is not ready actualy. Can I install...

Hi everyone, I am new, I am finally taking the plunge and going to try FreeBSD (upon the recommendation of a telecom IT guy I know.) I want to do a tri-boot setup... Windows 10 + Linux (which has been my primary OS since '09) + FreeBSD. My question is is there a particular order that I...

I am dual-booting Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) and FreeBSD on the same laptop. I decided to use Grub2 (explanation below). Since Linux boots, I am doing this from Linux. The kernel appears to boot and scrolls through the kernel messages, but then ends with the following message: Mountroot: waiting for...

Hi All, I need to install VMware-Horizont-Client on my freebsd, I've downloaded the linux version from here: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VIEWCLIENTS_LINUX_35_64&productId=421&rPId=9425 But really I don't know if there is a way to run and install it.... I have the...

Hello! After some testing I've found out that my FreeBSD sshd daemon takes more CPU time than other OS (11% vs 6%). The same usage for 20Mb/s and for 90Mb/s. It doesn't matter from where I start SSH session. Please look at the following information. #1 OS: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p3 #2 Other...

Hello. I am a C/C++ Python and Java developer at the Elettra Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Trieste, Italy. For the control system we use and produce open source software, and we develop under linux. I have been a fan of FreeBSD since my laurea degree thesis back in 2004. To cope with work...

BBR Article: https://lwn.net/Articles/701165/ linux 4.9 patch: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/671069/ FreeBSD should also be improved.

Hi, sorry for the ignorance, it is the first time that I install FreeBSD. I wondered if FreeBSD automatically installs a boot loader, because I want to make a dual boot with Gentoo, Gentoo grub maintaining and adding the voice FreeBSD (of course I will use UFS partitions compatibility grub), thanks.

we are running some jails in FreeBSD 10 and the decision has been made to decommission the FreeBSD server and migrate all the jails to Linux environment Red Hat 6 or 7. Is there a straight forward way of migrating BSD jails to linux -- as containers that can be run via docker or any other way...

I've got a large raidz2 pool created under ZFS On Linux that I'd like to import to FreeBSD. I've been told that it is possible as long as the enabled options from ZOL are available under FreeBSD. I don't really know what is available though, and I couldn't find anything concise enough to...

I'm new to FreeBSD and beyond just using it in a virtual machine, I've yet to actually install it onto working hardware (my next step). I'm a bit curious (or confused) by some of the documentation I've been reading concerning multiple partitions. My setup is as follows. sda0 8.0gb - swap...

If I put a Linux formatted OpenZFS HDD into a FreeBSD system, would I be able to mount the drive as if it were a native FreeBSD ZFS drive?

HERE: https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4476 Let me paste it below, dunno how long it will hang on the net. The Truth about Linux 4.6 by spender » Sat May 14, 2016 1:06 pm As anticipated in public comments, the Linux Foundation is already beginning a campaign to rewrite...

I'm trying to setup my nvidia drivers and have been following the handbook, I have installed xorg and enabled linux_enable="YES" It says: When I did that I got this response: # sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18 compat.linux.osrelease: 2.6.32 -> 2.6.18 This makes me wonder if I am...

I want to chainload my FreeBSD system from Archlinux using systemd-boot (previously known as gummiboot) and I'm wondering if this is possible. My FreeBSD system is 10.3 running UEFI root on ZFS. Is there anyway I can either load the kernel, chainload the bootloader or do something so that I am...

Hi, I'm a Linux user(ArchLinux) thinking about switching to FreeBSD. After a bit of googling, the only doubt I have left is what game/multimedia programming libraries are there for FreeBSD. I searched for some and found out that there are sdl and allegro ports, although these libraries don't...

(Posting to the "General" forum because I could not find another forum that was better suited to the topic; feel free to relocate the discussion if it belongs elsewhere) I am developing an application that will run on a server which will be exposed to the Internet; I have persuaded my employer...

Hi! According to the FreeBSD handbook, before installing the emulators/linux_base-c6 port/package in order to enable Linux compatibility, you should do sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18 but, if I am right, the latest emulators/linux_base-c6 port/package is based on a newer Linux kernel...

Hi, I've been playing with the Linuxulator in an attempt to be able to do FPGA programming entirely in FreeBSD. I have the Altera Quartus software (which is unfortunately only provided as a Linux binary) running fine now after much work, mainly in installing libraries manually before I realised...