Introduce yourself, tell us who you are and why you chose FreeBSD

You also have Ardour, LMMS and Audacity that work perfectly on FreeBSD and these are decent DAWs.
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Ardour works perfectly?? But Paul Davis said that OSS is garbage and he would never accept any related patches. He's probably busy working out the endless bugs his 4 layer audio bean dip requires to run on Linux these days...
 
I'm a long time Linux and Windows user. Occasionally come into contact with a MacOS setup.

I have used FreeBSD in some past IT work. I currently don't use it at the office, but have seen some projects running on it which rekindled my interest in the OS.

I recently installed GhostBSD on two PCs, and it works out of the box in one of them. I am hoping to gain 3d acceleration in the newer PC, so I can run a few 3d games, apps and viewers that have native FreeBSD builds. One of them is a third party Second Life viewer called Megapahit.

In any case, I hope to learn more about the inner workings of FreeBSD. I do enjoy tinkering under the hood with the OSs, so I am just as likely to mess with Windows and Linux when something doesn't function well for me.
 
ikbendeman said:
Who's new to FreeBSD? Did you migrate from another OS and what was your reason?
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Ok, the illusion of control. My first OS (after CP/M and QNX2/4) was FreeBSD.

I made quite a few things with picoBSD and FreeBSD is an OS of choice for me in 2025 when I want the whole thing working.

BTW, please bring GraalJIT JVMs. I'm in.
 
Hello, everyone!

I've recently started using Linux (again), but I've also taken up C and x86 assembly. Upon reaching the topic of Operating Systems, I became fascinated with UNIX and it's history, which led me here.

I bought a used ThinkPad x260 and installed FreeBSD on it and got XFCE running. Now I'm writing this, which means it's working fine!

My long-term goal is to eventually be able to contribute to the project somehow, so I thought that installing and using the system would be a good start!
 
Hai, i am new to FreeBSD and id like to use it soon, i am new to forums in general... would like to ask some questions that are not defined in the Rules btw. (any mod who has time and sees this)
I hope i learn about FreeBSD much and how to use a Forum, hehe.
 
lukasf said:
i am new to FreeBSD
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Welcome to a wonderful new world of computing and gaining knowledge.

lukasf said:
i am new to forums in general... would like to ask some questions that are not defined in the Rules btw.
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There's a long standing set of unwritten rules; called "netiquette". Most of us old farts, that have been on the internet longer than you've been alive, tend to follow those. One of those "rules" is that you don't ask to ask a question, you simply ask your question. With regards to "our" specific forum rules, those mainly deal with things we do not want. So if it's not mentioned in the rules it's probably ok, but we do sort of require the question to directly, or indirectly, be applicable to FreeBSD. General technology questions like "how does a webserver work" would be fine, "how do I set up a webserver on Debian/Ubuntu/Whatever" is not unless you're asking on how to set up that webserver on FreeBSD specifically. Does that clear things up a bit?
 
SirDice said:
Welcome to a wonderful new world of computing and gaining knowledge.


There's a long standing set of unwritten rules; called "netiquette". Most of us old farts, that have been on the internet longer than you've been alive, tend to follow those. One of those "rules" is that you don't ask to ask a question, you simply ask your question. With regards to "our" specific forum rules, those mainly deal with things we do not want. So if it's not mentioned in the rules it's probably ok, but we do sort of require the question to directly, or indirectly, be applicable to FreeBSD. General technology questions like "how does a webserver work" would be fine, "how do I set up a webserver on Debian/Ubuntu/Whatever" is not unless you're asking on how to set up that webserver on FreeBSD specifically. Does that clear things up a bit?
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Thank you, it does. I have a specific question in mind regarding my potential profile picture. It has a Prideflag in it and i thought i make sure that its not prohibted since its offtopic for this forum.
I am kinda sure that its not a problem but you know, i better ask before i offend anyone
 
I am 75% a bum on disability benefits and 25% a venture capitalist. Almost a decade ago I intended to install OpenBSD on this machine, but
it did not have driver support enough for me to get a dmesg from the installer so lazy as I was I installed FreeBSD instead.
I use FreeBSD as a desktop when I need a good terminal, and I use it on a hobby level. I have Windows 11 on this desktop too.
I am not the level to assess one operating systems merits over another, but FreeBSD has a cool logo and is hobbyist friendly.
I made half the port of Broadcast Using This Tool. Another thing I like about FreeBSD is that comes as an operating system and
not a distro, so that one has a chance to figure out what is installed or not. This makes it easier to find support.
 
Tally ho, fellow netizens! I'm r3wst3r, or as the forum gods command: "rthreewstthreer". I've been using OpenBSD for two years now on a T440, which very quickly became my favorite machine, even with its inferior trackpad. More recently, I've been learning FreeBSD for a few projects, the one I'm most excited about being following along with Michael W Lucas' "Run Your Own Mail Server" without getting distracted sightseeing around a cool OS. I've been getting pretty fed(ora'd) up with Linux in recent years, and while I couldn't replace all my Linux machines with OpenBSD, I hope to be able to do that with FreeBSD soon.

Thank you to all who contribute their time and expertise to free software.
 
Hello everyone,

My name is mustafa, and I’m new to this forum. I’ve recently developed a keen interest in [topic of the forum, e.g. web development]. As a beginner, I’m eager to learn from your posts and share my own journey. Looking forward to connecting and contributing!

Thank you for having me here!

Best regards,
mustafa
 
Hello everyone!

I am (still) a Linux desktop user with several years of experience who is preparing to make the jump to FreeBSD and leave behind systemd, pulseaudio, dbus, policykit... If it were up to me, I would even leave pam behind, but it is already standard on most systems, so I will accept that. Wayland, on the other hand, does not really repel me as much; for now, it does not have excessive dependencies. So, although X11 does not give me any problems, I see the point of Wayland and will try to start with it.
I have noticed that precompiled packages are often with options I do not like, but that is what ports are for. Although I do not like compiling (I read in the handbook the issues with mix packages and ports, so the idea is compiling all third party software, ever large like Firefox...) or having to investigate certain compilation options to know if I need them or not (I am not a computer expert and my knowledge in the field is limited), FreeBSD offers the best freedom/complication ratio for what I am looking for.
 
I am ..... nobody.

I have tested various BSD based systems every now and then, but the problem with BSDś has been poor support for wifi and mobile broadband. Now FreeBSD seems to be ready for daily use, so maybe it will be my main distro some day?
 
Hello. I wanted to better understand how a kernel works, or even what it is, and somehow ran accross "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" by McKusik, which is an excellent book. Excellent. I'm still not all the way through it, but hope to this year.

As a consequence I started thinking in terms of what I could do with it, and have a couple of ideas brewing. You are more than likely to hear about them sooner than later as I become also lost in FreeBSD. Basically a very basic, bare bones server that I am writting from scratch in trully appalling C.

I am also tentatively considering using it as my desktop OS sometime in the future. I remember the pain of transitioning from Windows to Linux, so I don't consider it lightly.

Already have it running on an old HP Latitude.
 
ikbendeman said:
Who's new to FreeBSD? Did you migrate from another OS and what was your reason?
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Well... I am certainly new to Freebsd but I have not "migrated" yet. Let's just say I am looking for something fresher than my usual daily driver, which is Debian bookworm. Actually, my sudden interest was stimulated by a recent blog post which posed the question, "What happens when Linus Torvalds blows up for real, and departs after telling everyone to stick it?" A joke of course, but his opinions and demands can be very... emphatic, shall we say. A palace coup is not out of the question.

So, I am loading FBSD on a Mac Trashcan and an old Series 8 Intel nuc just to kick the tires. Unix is not new to me - I was trained on AIX long before Linux was a thing, but that was a fair time ago and the "Use it or Lose it adage" is in full swing, although parts are slowly coming back.

I stay down in the CLI most of the time, since I usually program to hardware connected either by USB or a legacy parallel port card. Usually I2C, but occasionally SPI and sometimes even just "turn this hardware line off and on real fast."

I haven't touched Windows for decades, but can use MacOS and most versions of Linux with some ability. And CP/M on an 8080, for fun. And Z/OS, although that is very unlikely to be needed again.

Seriously, I am testing the waters before deciding to put real money in a modern system set up for programming with FBSD. So far it has been fun, and surprisingly unfrustrating.

Romanof
 
About 12 years ago I was excited about the prospect of using LXD on Linux as a replacement for virtual machines. This was fairly new technology in the Linux world, and it was amazing. We were able to run software on physical hardware while retaining all the benefits of virtualization. LXD felt a little bit hacked together, but that was to be expected given the circumstances. Canonical was investing in its development, and new features were coming out all the time.

I thought I was on the cutting edge, and then learned that FreeBSD already had a well designed and integrated "jails" system going back decades. Why had hardware virtualization been such a game-changer for the IT industry between 2008 and 2015? Snapshots, live migrations, isolation, and all the other benefits hypervisors brought us were available in FreeBSD all along. Now it was 2014 and everyone was talking about Docker, Kubernates, and micro services; but again, the benefits of these systems were already available in the BSD world.

So after experimenting with jails, watching a talk given by Michael W. Lucas and reading one of his books, I switched to FreeBSD. All of the software I previously hosted on Linux could be run on FreeBSD. Thanks to FreeBSD's consistent text-based configuration and good documentation I felt more confident about how everything was set up. I used FreeBSD to host web services for a number of years, and then started using it on my desktop as well.
 
Hi all!

I am a new FreeBSD user and I am very happy to say that it is running in my oldest laptop which I bought in 2008 and its performance is outstanding despite of the hardware. This is something that I could never get done with other OS. And when I read the UNIX history, FreeBSD in particular and other things, it caught my attention.

As other team members said, FreeBSD is a great community that pursues quality and well design. And my old laptop confirms that!

Thank you so much FreeBSD team for everything you do!
 
Hi everyone, I'm new to FreeBSD (and BSDs in general). At the end of last year, I read Run Your Own Mail Server by Michael Lucas and he mentioned a couple BSDs. I got curious an now almost a year later I've read several more of his books and am running a FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS and a couple jails.

I think my favorite thing about FreeBSD is the quality of documentation, and especially the manpages. Thanks to all the doc-committers out there!
 
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