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

Hi,
I registered today on this forum

My path was with linux at home from 2004.
If i remember the details, i started with Red hat, then Slackware for a long time
Last five years i distro hop'ed:
Void linux, Crux Linux, Gentoo Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, slackware on and off.
I feel slackware is in my heart for long using it and also for what make slackware what it is.
I waited to install permanent freeBSD for some isssue, (Wifi atheros, dropbox not available).
But i knew the differences versus Linux.
The main one is --- FreeBSD is a coherent system, Linux is an assembly of unrelated ideas.
Now, for WIFI on Freebsd i use a USB dongle (ASUS nano), and for Dropbox replaced with rclone.
I want to stay here.
And i dont like the path that systemD/Wayland/Ubuntu are taking to sink linux.
Excuse me for my english (i'm italian).
 
Hello all

I am Phat Le and after 3 tries and errors i got my freebsd running today on hyprland. It has been frustrating, but fun journey and lots of learning to do still especially how things work jails and so on. All is new for me in here. Been running basically all Linux distros already distro hopping and even build my own custom ones ostree based or bootc images just for fun and learning. I choosed for FreeBSD since i think it is time now to learn it and it has much more functions that i want especially stability and security side and i can make it much better to me and my flow.

About me Old grympy one leg on ground already. Just Graduated as Software developer and going on UNI now for Cyber security Specialist and Ethical hacker 4 years starting on August. I have been self learned 7 years on Linux and Software developing before i even went to school to study on it.

Looking forward to learn this seems really fun and the right thing to do even was thinking 2 years sometimes i should test it and here we are now.

I am known on problems on my hardware i dont run easy laptop for linux or here Dell XPS 9510 model basic things work pretty solid, but i couldent figure yet bluetooth so using now logiops dongle and oh the fun is happening to figuring nvidia it might be working since drivers are loaded and nvidia-smi is working and so is intel i915. so not too much issues small things and yes will need cuda to system too, but those not so important now

happy to be here
 
Hello - again - it's been a good while since my last post and I hope you are all doing okay - I have FreeBSD 15.0 running on desktop and notebook PCs - HP Prodesk i7 67xx Gen 2 and Acer 5551-A AMD Athlon 2 X2 respectively. These are both on XFCE4 DEs, as is my choice. I guess you'd say they are become my 'daily- driver' and I'd say well... maybe. They run everything I was (still am) running on my production Manjaro PC & Notebook. However, 15.0 [post 14.3] is doing it for me, currently!

I'm, an 'Application's user in the main. Treeline/Android Outliner Pro, Libre project, Darktable, GIMP & GNUCash. Found the vi discourse forum interesting today - I'm able to use it at a 'very' rudimentary level. I'm retired a long time now however FreeBSD and it's People/Forums take me right to my days of Basic and C/PM+ and OSes in-between then and now. 🤗

The truth is that I've not been bold enough to attempt putting FreeBSD 15.0 on my AMD 7700* & HP EliteBook Manjaro boxes... Yet! 🤔

Keep up the good work. 👍🏻
 
bakul said:
You might want to update your 15.0 systems to get all the security patches.... Or wait for a bit as 15.1-RC2 is already out.
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Hi bakul,
- many thanks for the heads-up. :)

I am showing version 15.0 - P9 currently - I installed from 'pkgbase' and run #pkg update and #pkg upgrade

Looking at /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf all it contains is:-
'FreeBSD-base: { enabled: yes }'

I've no idea if that is all that's required to be in that file and, if not, how to discover what should be in there?
 
itdm5j21 said:
Hi bakul,
- many thanks for the heads-up. :)

I am showing version 15.0 - P9 currently - I installed from 'pkgbase' and run #pkg update and #pkg upgrade

Looking at /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf all it contains is:-
'FreeBSD-base: { enabled: yes }'

I've no idea if that is all that's required to be in that file and, if not, how to discover what should be in there?
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docs.freebsd.org

Chapter 26. Updating and Upgrading FreeBSD

Information about how to keep a FreeBSD system up-to-date with freebsd-update or Git, how to rebuild and reinstall the entire base system, etc
docs.freebsd.org docs.freebsd.org



Chapter 26.7.1 in the hand book should have you covered.
 
itdm5j21 said:
I've no idea if that is all that's required to be in that file and, if not, how to discover what should be in there?
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Yes, that's all you need + the default /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf -- both of which are created in a fresh freebsd install. Along with the handbook suggestion above, manpages for pkg(1) and pkg.conf(5) provide some detail. In general on *BSDs it is a good habit to check man pages as they are usually uptodate. Also the apropos(1) command!

If your kernel shows -p9, you have caught up.
 
Thanks guys, I've read that section of the manual now, have updated the FreeBSD.conf file and have it pointing to the 15.0/STABLE Weekly URL. On rebooting all seems to be okay , though I was already on -p9 previously.

Thanks again for the help & advice, especially since I should have gone to the Handbook first! I mean, I keep a link to it on my Desktop... 🫣
 
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