That's what attracted me to FreeBSD initially, you can just do
cd /usr/ports/devel/php85 and type make install. One of the first systems I used to build FreeBSD on was an old Pentium 90, with 8 MB (yes, megabytes, not gigabytes) of memory
I wasn't either when I started with FreeBSD almost 30 years ago. I'm convinced dabbling with FreeBSD actually prepared/trained me for a professional system administrator's job.
I actually already tried to install Blender from the ports and I ran out of RAM (and even swap) and the PC just froze (and I had to do a hard reset),and as for learning FreeBSD, I don't mind the second reason I installed it is because I wanted to try something with the CLI
Can't second this. I dare say FreeBSD's ports tree covers ~98% of Linux' third party software. I may be wrong, but I don't miss anything.
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)Why not just simply do a
pkg install blender?
The FAQs are also really worth to skim, cover a lot of typical newbie questions.)blender is an application that you dont want to run on an old machine. Better try another port that attracts you.
I did so, I just first tried the assembly from the sources,regarding Linux users, they prefer to retell fables, because all the software I used in Debian is also on Freebsd (the only thing is that I had to transfer FreeBSD from quarterly repos to latest, because there was no Blender on quarterly),Well, for games I have a second PC with Windows (because I stick to the tactic of only using open source software on the main PC,because I don't really trust OS that have a closed source code)Can't second this. I dare say FreeBSD's ports tree covers ~98% of Linux' third party software. I may be wrong, but I don't miss anything.
There may be some few very special packages only available under Linux, and for sure there is the one or other user insisting on a certain package, not (yet) available here. But that's rather an exception.
For what may be missing here there is either an alternative (not seldom even better - you just didn't knew it yet; give it a shot. being always open for alternatives should be common when using alternative OSs anyway), or it's not really a loss (IMO), or it will be ported to FreeBSD sooner or later (maybe, you do it one day.
Personally I never missed anything under FreeBSD (Well, games. But they are not crucial. Since I switched to FreeBSD for me it's less gaming, more production. Just a change of what I was used to before, and not to the worse.
After all, what's the use in having all software packages as bleeding edge versions, when the whole shit does not work reliably because of a giant not conformable update mess and dependency hell?
Why not just simply do apkg install blender?
(You probably missed that section in The Handbook? Well, coming from Linux you are experienced to not having an useful documentation. But here is unix ground.
Welcome!
Once you get used to the changes you will admit: good choice.
I don't mind building something from a port to gain experience, but I would not like to do a hard restart again due to a lack of RAM (since building on my processor will take a long time and I will not be able to be at the PC during all this time)
