Show Your FreeBSD Workstation (Specs + Screenshot)

[Alain De Vos]

Why do people post these things? On stupid reddit I used to see people post screenshots of the boot screen, which was the exact same thing on everyone's computer. Is it supposed to have some meaningful proof of life?

Every man likes watching P*rn

 

[CShell]

blackbird9 nice and orderly.

LOL -- ya, I was wondering if that was "real" -- All the cabinets I see are chaotic !

 

[Crivens]

It would perhaps be more fun if people posted photos of their physical workstations.

Hell no. No way I'll clean my desk up only so you lot can see a generic laptop not burried in paper, coffee cups, game boxes, cables and more paper, pens and phones.

 

[blackbird9]

Can you call that a workstation? Yes, I think so

Only "old" HP hardware, Z600 + Zbook 15G3, running only FreeBSD, used for programming.

I am very proud of this setup. It is perhaps a twenty-year-old dream coming true today. I am writing my own small operating system for AVR microcontrollers on a high-end computer running real Unix. FreeBSD rules and rocks

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That's a nice desk. I like the breadboard prototyping setup. What is the small black box with the keypad above the keyboard? Is that a calculator or something else? Maybe a device programmer?

 

[blackbird9]

LOL -- ya, I was wondering if that was "real" -- All the cabinets I see are chaotic !

It's real. Some of the guys on our test floor have made some real works of art. On the other hand... the "big almighty mess" racks are in plentiful supply too!

 

[blackbird9]

Hell no. No way I'll clean my desk up only so you lot can see a generic laptop not burried in paper, coffee cups, game boxes, cables and more paper, pens and phones.

Yeah, if I take a photo of mine, I'll have to clean it up a bit, and then I won't know where anything is. On the other hand... it's about time I sorted it out...

 

[kpedersen]

Hell no. No way I'll clean my desk up only so you lot can see a generic laptop not burried in paper, coffee cups, game boxes, cables and more paper, pens and phones.

Hah, it wouldn't be classed as a workstation if it wasn't verging on being a health hazard.

That said... I am in a similar position; hence why I haven't contributed yet either.

 

[astyle]

Hell no. No way I'll clean my desk up only so you lot can see a generic laptop not burried in paper, coffee cups, game boxes, cables and more paper, pens and phones.

My own desk looks like that, too. But this thread actually does provide some motivation to spend time and effort to clean my own desk - it's amazing what one can actually accomplish (instead of just dreaming/fantasizing) if they organize their ass off.

 

[doul]

What is the small black box with the keypad above the keyboard? Is that a calculator or something else? Maybe a device programmer?

No, just a CASIO graph 100+ calculator. It makes me think I should replace it with an HP one
(you know, for the sake of consistency...)