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.
 
Hi. I just noticed this thread now.

I am a Swiss living abroad as an expat with about 20 years of using Linux for my personal machines. Since the pandemic, I use the new macbooks with Apple silicone because of their impressive battery life.

However, I am getting increasingly impatient with the poor experience delivered by Apple and even worse: Microsoft.

I am interested in FreeBSD because I intent to replace a Synology NAS by a FreeBSD server to serve data and host websites and other services. The relative simplicity and stability in comparison with Linux as well as the ZFS integration are the reasons I got interested in FreeBSD. It is important for me to feel that I will build system for 10 years.
 
As a desktop user, out of Windows slowness frustration, and hopping to Linux (usually Debian) and Windows, back and forth, some years ago I don't remember exactly when, I tried FreeBSD 12. First, I was just curious. Then, I noticed how stable it was in comparison. Never been a gamer myself; I use it mainly for work, browsing and learning. I simply love it.
 
ikbendeman said:
Who's new to FreeBSD? Did you migrate from another OS and what was your reason?
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I am not new to FreeBSD but jumping back into it. I just signed up for this form. I don't even know how to make a new post. I can't get my FreeBSD to work. I don't know where to ask for help.
 
How do I start a new post? Or where do I ask for help? I am stuck. I installed FreeBSD unto a virtual machine. And when I rebooted the GUI was in Spanish and I don't how that happened and my password wasn't even working.
 
jnalli said:
How do I start a new post? Or where do I ask for help? I am stuck. I installed FreeBSD unto a virtual machine. And when I rebooted the GUI was in Spanish and I don't how that happened and my password wasn't even working.
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We can help ...

But you might want to post to a place where more people will see your question:

Please repost your question here: Complete Noob

Please include:
  1. The virtual machine you are installing FreeBSD to
  2. The exact version of FreeBSD you are installing
  3. HOW you installed FreeBSD (aka CD, memory stick, etc)
  4. If you can think of some reason the O/S is picking the Spanish language? Bios / your geographic location?
  5. What the desired language you would like for your FreeBSD install (English, etc)
 
Greetings everyone! iPod here 👋 I came to BSD escaping the latest decisions by OpenSUSE (from 15 to16, getting rid of YaST, etc etc), so I'm looking for something more robust and consistent. I've always heard many praises over the documentation and a welcoming community (which I didn't find in the former example) so I'm really looking forward to migrate my infra to OpenBSD and also contribute to the community and project as much as possible!
Wishing you a great end of the year to everyone! From the looks of the posts and the community overall, you really do seem a cool and very polite bunch !
 
ikbendeman said:
Who's new to FreeBSD? Did you migrate from another OS and what was your reason?
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Hello all (including, of course, Billy, Roddy, Mikey, and JIM). I may be migrating to FreeBSD from Slackware, which I started using as my main system in 2003 (after playing around with small mostly-Slack derivatives on older computers from 2001 or 2002). While always primarily a Slacker, I did try various other Linux distros on the side early on and even had FreeBSD installed sometime between 2005 and 2007 using something between 5.3 and 6.0 (mainly in the summer of 2006, apparently). I doubt anything I learned then would apply now even if I remembered any of it. I was actually on these forums as 'j()' then but I guess my account's been purged as I tried logging in and was told there was no such account. I couldn't re-register with that name because the forums now seem to require at least five-character names.

Anyway, there are a couple-three reasons for my possible migration: one is that I don't like the direction Linux has been going for a long time, with systemd as a recent prime example, another is that Slackware has become rather hefty and, while -current continues to roll along (and is what I'm sort of forced to be on now), it can't seem to manage stable releases anymore (one in the last nine years, when FreeBSD has gone through 12.x, 13.x, 14.x, and 15.0), and another is that the Slack community seems to have lost its "slack". I thought about trying other distros but I'm not sure I actually even like Linux. I just liked Slack. Hopefully FreeBSD will help me recapture the feeling I had with it for many years. Basically, if my simple hardware generally works (but I have a second post coming about that) and the system can run tmux in fvwm2 on X without too much other excess and things are mostly handled with a shell and an editor and text files, then I'll stick with it (though I'll probably also stick with Slackware until I absolutely can't).
 
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