What Do You Use FreeBSD For?

salmonella00

salmonella00

As the title says.
I haven't got a clue how to program, and my terminal knowledge is basic. I only use sh to perform basic maintenance :)
I'm a 24-year-old philologist, and I use FreeBSD for work, studying, research, music, and browsing the internet.
How about yourself? What do you use FreeBSD for?

BTW Nice to meet you all! ^^
 
Nice to meet you too. I am 25 now but when I was 20-22 I was using FreeBSD off and on as my full-time desktop, until I had to switch to Wifi, which was not as great then as it is now. Currently I only use FreeBSD on my servers but I am thinking of switching back to FreeBSD on the desktop if I can manage to try the new mt76 driver and see how the performance is with my current wifi card (which is an MT7921).
 
To test the limits of old hardware capability, you can think of it as experiment but in length is my general purpose daily driver. I have learned the innards to keep the environment optimized and measure the longevity of this machine.
 
Nice to meet you! I first encountered FreeBSD in the 1990's when I was still trapped behind a 2400 baud modem and a telco's rates that didn't match the revenue from my newspaper round. Then came cable internet. Woohoo! I ended up being on the UNIX team of a technical university for a number of years, tending a whole slew of FreeBSD-based servers for e-mail, web and other tasks. Nowadays I run FreeBSD mostly at home as I'm not directly involved in running servers at work anymore. My desktop, laptop and NAS run FreeBSD. I've taken to experimenting with Kubernetes on Talos Linux as a learning experience. The storage backend and backups are still FreeBSD though. Can't lose any data now can we? ;-)
 
Welcome. As most people, daily driver here as a general purpose OS. Includes anything from paid development work (java and c# mostly), browsing, listening to music, movies and gaming.
 
Web development company for a multitude of sites large and small until we shutdown a few years ago. Now we're talking about getting the band back together but we'll see
 
As of right now I use FreeBSD to host a single jail for our Unifi controller. I used to use it for building firewalls but now use OpenBSD for that. Work laptop is a MacBook Air. Personal laptop is a 15 year old Dell Latitude running Windows 11. As soon as it dies I'll be replacing it with a MacBook Air as well!
 
What Do You Use FreeBSD For?
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To do computer stuff...

(Wow! Suspense 🙄 )

At work, I have to use W10 for professional software only released for Windows. At home, I use FreeBSD for desktop work, web surfing, listening to music, and programming using tools in a "Unix is my IDE" way 😎
 
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