What Do You Use FreeBSD For?

[hruodr]

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?

For example to classify old saxon alliterations ...

5767 wannom wahtun - weros
5660 gi-waraht waldandes - vundarte^can
5417 gi-warahta waldand - wam
5417 gi-warahta wam - waldand
0042 gi-warahtes gi-wahsanes - wordon
3198 gi-waro waldand - word
5427 gi-waro wamscad/ono - vure^d/o
0300 waroli^co waldandes - gi-wardod
1907 a-wardean waldand - wiht
1882 a-wardien wara - willean
0300 gi-wardod waldandes - waroli^co
0300 gi-wardod waroli^co - waldandes
0384 wardoda wacogeandi - wi^f
4980 far-wardot warb=e - weroldi
4355 wardon gi-wand - weroldes
5371 warf waldand - werodes
1959 ge-warhten waldand - willeon
2602 far-warhton wallandi - werpad
4352 warli^co wacot - wiscumo
0962 was waldandes - wastme
2557 wastom 'auuerda - wini
2410 wastom waldes - weridun
0962 wastme waldandes - was

 

[blackbird9]

So there's 3 types of grid.
1. ECC83

2. Encom International

3. One of these

A friend from san jose brought one of those over here back around 1987 or 8, we were all amazed by it at the time, cool machine.

 

[dr_grid]

You are taking a hackers class? Wow! I wasn't aware such officially exist.
Please, don't hack my machines!

It is a community college class, Network Attack Principles. They offer a program in Cyber Security. I am personally interested in putting some of my stuff on the internet (DNS, email, www, and maybe a few other things), so I am trying to make sure I have some idea about security.

I tested an external web site, let my brother know it was there and asked him to access it as a test. Left it up for a day or two, and then read the access logs. OMG, can't believe the number of bots trying to hack in. Keep your web server up to date!

 

[dr_grid]

So there's 3 types of grid.
1. ECC83
View attachment 26965

2. Encom International
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3. One of these
View attachment 26964

A friend from san jose brought one of those over here back around 1987 or 8, we were all amazed by it at the time, cool machine.

Yes, I remember #3, those plasma displays were cool. As for me, type #1 for sure.

 

[Charlie Brown]

FreeBSD is the only operating system, although it has flaws, it has problems, but they are solved, because one OS, one solution. I think the biggest argument is that people are more adequate and can not only talk about BSD, but also tell how it works, what to do. I was scared by ports, but it's not as scary as they scare. There is support
I work in KiCAD, FreeCAD, SDRAngel ...
There are actually a lot of packages in ports, even Valentina is there, a sewing package. So everyone is obsessed with Linux, and if there are packages for Linux, then they are tested on several, often it's Ubuntu and Fedora, and to add BSD it is enough to simply add #ifdef OS==FreeBSD to the lists and that's it

me too I was scared by ports but the fear is more damageable then the thing it self !

 

[Charlie Brown]

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! ^^


doas pkg install Salmonella00
Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue...
FreeBSD-ports repository is up to date.
Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue...
FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'Salmonella00' have been found in the repositories


 

[kep3144]

I'm using it on my MacBook Air as a daily driver. Internet, emails, reading books, writing scientific and educational stuff (mostly in LaTeX). Libre Office also works fine for me. In some rare cases if I got some Microsoft word documents heavily polluted with mathematical expressions and special formatting, I need to use office 365 web version to convert the document to pdf, and then I can review it still using FreeBSD. Months ago I changed from Debian to FreeBSD, and I think I have reached the point of no return

 

[huDevil]

Everything,
programming c++, internet, audio, video and so on .......

 

[bgavin]

Does anybody here use GhostBSD?

 

[astyle]

Does anybody here use GhostBSD?

Nah. I did some research on it awhile ago, and they keep referring back to the FreeBSD documentation so much, that I decided it's easier to just tinker with FreeBSD the OG. Sure, some pre-configured stuff is convenient. But at this point, I have just decided that GhostBSD just doesn't offer enough enticement / advantages over original FreeBSD for me to even consider moving to GhostBSD.

If I wanted to spend time on a different OS, it would most likely be RedoxOS. But even then, I don't see RedoxOS as a useful daily driver, more of a toy that still has a long way to go. RedoxOS, I see it as useful for learning programming languages, installing dev stacks, and the like, and if stuff breaks, that's fine. Nice time sink for figuring out what's still missing, and how to implement it, nothing more.

 

[Maturin]

Nah. I did some research on it awhile ago, and they keep referring back to the FreeBSD documentation so much, that I decided it's easier to just tinker with FreeBSD the OG. Sure, some pre-configured stuff is convenient. But at this point, I have just decided that GhostBSD just doesn't offer enough enticement / advantages over original FreeBSD for me to even consider moving to GhostBSD.

That's exactly the same experience I just had today.
A friend of mine asked me recently, to move away from Windows. And since he's not so very much in computers, I thought to pick some turn-key OS for him, I can bring him on a flashdrive, so he might have a peek. Of course I wanted to pick something from the BSD family, and my decision felt on GhostBSD with the MATE DE (personally I don't have any experience with that at all. But it seems to be quite uncluttered on the first look.)
And, as far I could check, it's not really that bad documented. Their homepage clean and clear, not overloaded, understandable and not repelling newcomers, everything needed seems to be there. So, sure, why not.
If somebody starts fresh, he or she might like the MATE terminal, but I cannot judge this.

But under documentation there is also a link to MATE - very good, and are also links to the FreeBSD Handbook, the Documentation, the wiki and this forums. Correction: That is NOT the case!
And I guess, when you dive a bit deeper into GhostBSD, you may realize, 'Why not start all over on FreeBSD? The step ain't that large.'
So, I second, what astyle said.
One can see GhostBSD as an easy entrance into FreeBSD. Since besides MATE it can also come with XFCE as default DE (and maybe another one) it's a good thing for Windows-only newcomers to get into the world of open source OS. I think, somehow, we both benefit from so shall support each other.

 

[bgavin]

So far I found everything I need for a daily driver in MX Linux.. provided it properly supports my nVidia RTX 4060ti card. This is a deal breaker.

I’m perfectly happy with a minimalist GUI with no eye candy and plain dialog boxes like Win7 had. So far the XFCE out of the box installation is just fine for this.

My desire is for an unchanging daily that supports the usual common apps. I have no need for FOMO.

 

[Maturin]

bgavin, by all I understood, what you're looking for, my recommendation was to give GhostBSD with the community's XFCE image a shot.
https://ghostbsd.org/download
I'm pretty sure it will all provide, what you want, plus, since you already have some experience in FreeBSD, you'd be at home in no time, since the differences to Linux are bigger.
But that's just an idea. Of course, you're free to chose whatever you like best.

 

[grandpa]

Does anybody here use GhostBSD?

I have used GhostBSD for some years until I tried KDE/Plasma/Wayland this year and have now migrated all Ghosts to Free/KDE/plasma/Wayland. One of the reasons was that the last Ghost I installed required 8Gb RAM to run from the USB stick.

Ghost was fine to use. Hassle-free and comfy.

I will not go back to using it though since I prefer to able to install on machines with low RAM and I also think that KDE/Plasma/Wayland is a touch nicer than the Ghosts I used.

/grandpa

 

[Stefan2]

Does anybody here use GhostBSD?

I used GhostBSD for some months before I switched to FreeBSD. First it ran fine but I had severe problems when I tried to upgrade to a newer GhostBSD version. FreeBSD runs on all of my desktop computers and laptops without any problems but I wasn't able to install GhostBSD on all of them. So I switched to FreeBSD and everything works fine ... I feel I'm more flexible with FreeBSD and it's easier to fix problems ...

 

[ralphbsz]

Today, I use FreeBSD on two machines. One is my main home server: Network router, DNS/DHCP/NTP/lpr/HTTP/... network service server for the internal network. File server (NFS only, haven't had time to set up Samba), and lots of storage for everything related to normal life (the /home/docs directory alone has 40K scanned documents). The storage runs backups to both a local write-only disk drive, and to off-site storage. Also is the hub of my home control / monitoring system (so I know what my water pumps and wells are doing, and I can turn off the lights on the driveway remotely).

Second machine is a remote machine on a very cheap (pennies per month) cloud server; used to provide tunneling from worldwide network, public web server, remote backup target, and network monitoring.

I used to run FreeBSD on a laptop for a short while (a few weeks), but that was frustrating, since I didn't want to invest time to get get things to work "well"; this was about 5 years ago. Switched to Linux for about 2 months, which was SLIGHTLY less frustrating (more things worked out of the box). Then got a new Mac ... in a nutshell, I was waiting for a good sale on a Macbook, and using an old x86 laptop temporarily. Today, FreeBSD might be a reasonable Desktop solution for an industry-standard laptop, but I happen to have a fine Macbook which is not currently broken.

Used to run FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi. Gave up after maybe 20 hours of tinkering. Too much stuff either flat out didn't work (I think Ethernet couldn't be made to work at the time), and other things were very inconvenient (enabling a GPIO pin to use the Dallas 1-wire network required recompiling kernels at the time, which was insane). I've been very happy with the Raspberry Pi foundation provided Debian distribution, with one exception: Major version upgrades still de-facto require a reinstall in Debian.

Why do I run FreeBSD on my main home server (and then for compatibility on the external remote server)? The three biggest reasons are ZFS, ZFS and ZFS. Being neat, organized, well-structured, tested, easy to upgrade, and "principle of least surprise" are the next few reasons.