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

Good News Everyone, one more member's post to validate for dear admins :)

I am also relative new to FreeBSD, even though compiled most of my stuff to FreeBSD as well
even though I am not yet using it fully on the desktop nor server yet.
But .. the server path forward is in the works and I am also quite happy with current stable FreeBSD
using Xorg and KDE on a desktop setting inside a VM.

I like bit twiddling in C++, do some Java, Math, computer graphics, low-level .. all fun.
Since I don't want to ruin my introduction, I will skip politics here and just say that I love FreeBSD more every day ;-)

Edit: Adding my FreeBSD 14.3 setup notes used for my testing node for JogAmp.
 
I am Manley Pager, just a simple man trying to make it through these difficult ages.
Not an IT professional or even a hobbyist. Just someone with an appreciation for simplicity and a lot of time on his hands.
My personal computing needs are few and I am satisfied by going over those handy manual pages on long and cold winter nights.
I heard a rumour on the wind that man() pages were more comprehensive over here in FreeBSD-land than on Linux, so I came to see for myself if there was any kernel of truth in that.
Disappointment did not come my way: there was, and I am now one happy man.
 
Hello everyone! My name is Santiago and ever since I first tried Arch Linux when it came out with "FreeBSD-style rc scripts" and other "FreeBSD-style" things I've always wondered what the fuss was about. Now, I started a company with my wife (knowuro.com) and finally had the perfect excuse to try the OS and I haven't been disappointed yet — using FreeBSD is very pleasant and consistent. I'm enjoying it a lot so far! I bought a used M920q Lenovo mini-pc, maxed out the memory (64Gb) and added 1TB of NVMe storage and installed FreeBSD 14.2.

I'm experimenting with self-hosting a few services like Forgejo, a url shortener, Bugsink and others. Once I feel comfortable this will become our "production" instead of a Hetzner VPS running Debian.
 
mariachi said:
Hello everyone! My name is Santiago and ever since I first tried Arch Linux when it came out with "FreeBSD-style rc scripts" and other "FreeBSD-style" things I've always wondered what the fuss was about. Now, I started a company with my wife (knowuro.com) and finally had the perfect excuse to try the OS and I haven't been disappointed yet — using FreeBSD is very pleasant and consistent. I'm enjoying it a lot so far! I bought a used M920q Lenovo mini-pc, maxed out the memory (64Gb) and added 1TB of NVMe storage and installed FreeBSD 14.2.

I'm experimenting with self-hosting a few services like Forgejo, a url shortener, Bugsink and others. Once I feel comfortable this will become our "production" instead of a Hetzner VPS running Debian.
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Does that model support low profile x16 dedicated graphics? I was looking into getting one but wasn't sure on the graphic card support.
 
LibreQuest said:
Does that model support low profile x16 dedicated graphics? I was looking into getting one but wasn't sure on the graphic card support.
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I've seen people online do it, and I am seriously thinking about it because these machines are cheap around here (Germany). Exploring if Steam can run headless or in a VM etc is something I haven't explored for a "FreeBSD gaming server" (I play simpler indie games, so GPU power is not a big issue).
 
Tired of those crazy things on Linux, like systemd, DBUS, flatpak/snap, and recently Wayland, pipewir, etc...
I'm not saying that they are bad, but too overcomplicated. The configuration and stability may vary from distro to distro.

FreeBSD reminds me of my first try on Linux Slackware 2; things are simple and understandable, and I feel that I have the system control again.
 
I'm currently using Ubuntu Linux as desktop, and have been using FreeBSD (currently 14.3) in a VM for a while to get a feel for it, so far liking FreeBSD a lot but have decades of Linux "dependencies" to get rid of first. I used to run Solaris (SunOS) before that (was a Sun Microsystems employee between 1997 - 2001, communications/network backline engineer).

What drives me to change to FreeBSD is mostly the Linux bloat, both kernel and distribution related, and Ubuntu's recent idea to port coreutils to Rust didn't help either.
 
Totally random at first when I was teenager:

In 1999, we wanted a dedicated server to host websites and IRC bots and to be cool kids.
In summer 2000, we had collected the funds for that (was still expansive at that moment).

Someone associated to the project was using this OS installed FreeBSD.

So, I learned all about UNIX system administration under that OS and stick with it.
I had somewhat bad experiences testing Slackware on workstation, so Linux didn't really kicked at that moment, and that let FreeBSD the only OS I was interested by.

Fast-forward 25 years later: on my free culture project Nasqueron, we're mostly using FreeBSD as OS for core services (devserver, mail, DNS, databases),
with some Linux to use with containers (CentOS Stream for development Docker server, Rocky for production). Happy to work with Linux servers at work.
Still taking a lot of care to avoid linuxism and share with others the importance to avoid to be linux-centric, so solutions work in more place than just on their Debian distribution.
 
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