What Do You Use FreeBSD For?

[LibreQuest]

I use it for everything except for spotify, netflix, etc, whatever behind that DRM protocol.
It started as a test for using something else to replace Linux and then it happened after some years I'm still testing it and I don't miss Linux at all, by the way the Linux disk is turned into a zfs backup.

There is audio/spotify-qt and www/linux-widevine-cdm

 

[ShelLuser]

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

This is what I actually love about FreeBSD (and basically Unix in general) because it doesn't really matter how much you know, as long as you know where to find the info you need. As silly as this may sound, but man man has managed to get me started on some completely unknown Unix environments; by simply reminding me of the proper search options.

As for programming... one step at a time. Shell scripting can be powerful, and the fun thing is: you can easily start small and work your way up.

How about yourself? What do you use FreeBSD for?

Ey there, welcome.

I host 2 FreeBSD VPS servers (main & backup) and I use these for everything Internet related. Hosting some websites, managing my e-mail, keeping track of a few domains of mine and of course some data managing courtesy of PostgreSQL. It's both for serious stuff, but also a bit of a hobby project; I'm currently in the process of writing some Python scripts/programs to help me automate a few tasks wrt my local package repository (my main server builds all the software I need using the ports collection, then stores those in a local package repository which is then used by my backup server; so... compile onces & use many ).

Last but not least my gf & me also use the main server as our private (modded) Minecraft server.

Each to their own, but there's something very satisfying about maintaining your own servers IMO. Especially when it's done in a semi-professional way (like I said: with a backup as secondary mail & DNS and (SQL) fallback options if/when needed).

 

[MrSilver]

Good to hear some nice use cases for Freebsd. I still think it's undervalued in most work environments. At home i run an old dell pc as a homelab, with many jails adguard, jellyfin and many more), a mint vm with a few podman containers(small and headless) on bhyve. Freebsd is so efficient, all this would never run on anything else.

At work, i recently moved a lot of guacamole servers into 2 Freebsd servers, with a ton of vnet jails. I love zfs, and it makes templates and jails so amazing to work with. I love the efficiency, i now run 40 servers less than before, due to just this move. Ofcourse there was quite a bit of scripting involved, but i left that to ai. As it would have taken me weeks.