Ah, the specs you mentioned earlier:
RAM is very important for compilation, esp. for kernel. I would not attempt to compile the kernel if my machine has less than 16 GB of RAM. I'd suggest not abusing your machine like that, especially if you plan to use it for work. Well, using FreeBSD is an excellent way to teach users how to correlate machine specs to the tasks asked of the machine. Welcome to the Forums, please feel free to ask questions!
I put time command before make build, the result is 2 hour 51 minutes... I already achieve what I want, now I'm planning to learn jail. Thank you for your suggestion about RAM
I've never had problems compiling FreeBSD (not only the kernel) on a laptop with 8GB RAM, and zamon already successfully built kernels on his laptop with 2GB RAM, so your requirements are rather high. For sure you're probably not able to do your regular business on a 2GB laptop during the build, but it works.
zamon you have a great literary style!I spent all day playing FreeBSD from installing desktop environment to compiling kernel which is failed and make me more curious for 4 days until I have success make my custom kernel, when installing FreeBSD I'm surprise that installation process is faster compare to Slackware installation and doesn't eat many storage at first install (I don't have screenshot but I know because I already compare). When installing Slackware I'm choosing the package one by one, not choosing kde and x windows for faster install.
Linux distro have their own structure especially in /etc for example ubuntu and slackware. Changing distro means you must learn how to install package with that distro, setting firewall, network etc... Sometimes this is frustrating for me, I know because I already setup web server using debian, ubuntu, centos (not using slackware because my client is not convenient with the distro).
As I said before I want to make my old laptop for working purpose (I'm a web developer) so this is not just experimental setup and then back again install Slackware.. no I'm not planning like that, right now I'm happy with my FreeBSD setup, I already download visual studio code and docker (then I found it useless because FreeBSD already have jail feature.. oh well)
I don't want to compare FreeBSD with Linux distro and start holy wars, they are different system if you know what I mean. For me FreeBSD is simple yet powerful OS and yes this time I switching full to FreeBSD and I'm preparing to deploy my work along with FreeBSD as web server.
So yeah if you planning to use FreeBSD as primary OS in your laptop, I think you should do it. just my two cent
astyle, I have my opinion about the rebuilding of the system, it is for weak hardware that the relief of reassembly gives serious benefits. And so when I was messing around with very old laptops (P2+256M, etc.), of course I started the rebuilding and left the PC for a few days so that it rustled quietly on the sidelines
make (no -j flags) on a Ryzen 5 2500U with 8GB RAM, and both times, compilations failed with OOM errors, and KDE crashed together with Xorg (I only had Konsole running for the compilations). The crash was so bad, I could not even SSH into my laptop to give it a reboot command, I had to do a hard power cycle. Trying to restart the compilations did me no good, I had to install those two ports from a pkg repo. But on another machine with 16 GB RAM (yeah, also a more powerful Ryzen 9 6900HS, but otherwise very similar FreeBSD install, minus KDE/Xorg), both LLVM15 and Firefox 111 finished compilation with no issues... go figga.It tends to only need more than 8GB of ram during very few stages within the compile. This means that you can generally get by using Swap.
yeah, I have 2 GB of swap, it gets assigned by default no matter how much RAM I have. I double-checked on a rig with 32 GB of RAM (where LLVM and Firefox compile no problem) - that rig also has just 2 GB of swap. And I use SSD's, not HDD's. And yeah, the laptop with the R9 and 16 GB of RAM also had just 2 GB of swap. And no, I did not set up a ramdisk. In all cases, compilations were done without jails.
I actually avoid any
DEBUG - related flags when I compile ports, so the answer is "nope" . After installing FreeBSD, I actually tried Arch and Gentoo in VirtualBox VMs... Those two are famously the most difficult ones to install - Most of the time, I ended up going for a derivative with a graphical install, because I could not make head or tails of the distros' documentation of the install process. After I installed FreeBSD a few times, I was able to finish the install process successfully for both Arch and Gentoo. But, the Linux documentation was not always easy to follow...
This is an interesting DIY luggable computer, not something I see every day. Thanks for sharing!
I like to make these. Over the years I've made very small systems with pico projectors and larger in steel drill cases and others with screens etc. Just a fun hobby. I have another that uses a pi4. The good thing with the larger case is having a quality keyboard fit in the case.
Interesting approach to building a PC you can transport, it's always interesting to see people's homebrew setups. The U59 looks like a useful little box.
I've made many similar setups. This one I decided to make as heavy as possible. The pcbs are 50 to 40 pin converters from the controller boards as well as the buttons for input select and other osd options.
I like IBM mechanical keyboards. They have always been of excellent quality. Especially, IBM Model M -
Me, too!
- okay, pretty noisy,
).I definitely like the built-in UPS! I guess they won't be putting yours in the ISS though at 37 lbs!I've made many similar setups. This one I decided to make as heavy as possible. The pcbs are 50 to 40 pin converters from the controller boards as well as the buttons for input select and other osd options.
Behind the panels is a 12'x6' 1/4' steel plate to protect against flex in the case lid.
The batteries are 3x 12v atv batteries and the led strip is a power monitor for charge level. They are essentially a built in ups.
The system can run approximately 6-7 hours under heavy load such as gaming.
The system, though small, weighs 37lbs. And I am pretty proud of that. Lol
The next system I may use lifepo4 batteries.
Edit: I forgot to address the mouse. I prefer a tethered mouse so no fiddling with batteries. However I do have another system based on the pi4 that uses a Bluetooth mouse. It is built in a steel drill case.
Cherry G80-3000 is worth a look. Gold crosspoint MX switches. These are actually made by cherry. The feel is good, but overall build quality nowhere near as good as IBM. A bit lighter to type on than the model M.Me, too!
I love those!
They're a bit
but the feeling is just perfect.
Since production was stopped a long time ago, and you may only get an orignal one with your preferred layout e.g. by ebay at a high prize - if you're lucky,
one might be interested in that unicomp owns the licenses to produce them.
I had a couple of original Ms and unicomp's (accidential pouring beverages on the kb cost me some...),
and can say they have 95% of the quality of the original IBM ones.
I already thought about to start a KB thread,
since I'm still looking for the perfect keyboard (what my wife is in shoes, I'm in keyboards - but I would be settled with one
