My first impressions after 20+ years of using mostly Linux are very positive. A bit nostalgic too because of my Slackware love from the past. I was planning to use it on my old laptops, but S4 hibernation is not available, S3 doesn't work, so I think I'll install it on some newer hw with Intel or AMD GPU and fast SSD to minimize startup time. ❤ your channel, thank you for the installation tutorial.
Hey awesome I found this installation guide of 14.1. got a question before I watched this video I saw a gentleman on eBay who sells FreeBSD case badges for your Tower or Desktop case. I have it saved in my eBay. To me that's a sweet addition to this. The case badges are a black and silver look to them.
Hey RoboNuggie my bad on the question part. The case badges are not from geekinspiel( probably totally misspelled that) but from a seller called 5 star case badge. The free BSD one really cool in the silver and black version. For anyone here doing a computer build and also Installing Free BSD this would be a great way to show everyone what your personal machine or server is running. Have a good one.
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I find it useful to add "status=progress" for dd to see what's going on and how long it's going to take. To set your packages from quarterly to latest: `mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos ; sed 's/quarterly/latest/' /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf`. Also you could've used sysrc for /etc/rc.conf editing and you should always have ntpd running (pkg issues) but this was a nice slow paced intro to FreeBSD on desktop. :)
I've been wondering if it's time to do a fresh install, myself. I've been using the same one for four years now, as a daily driver. Upgrade after upgrade during that time.
@charleswilliams8368 If everything runs fine, then I would just carry on..... and be glad you can upgrade after upgrade unlike some other OS that always needs a fresh install :-)
Amazing video! I'm a new user of GNU/Linux after the mess Windows made, but I ended up on FreeBSD, seeing if it's possible to install Wayland and Wayfire (just because I enjoy seeing that desktop and window animation, not for any special reason). As a novice with these systems, I don't really think it will be very useful, but it's for a generic laptop "kiano", with an i3-5005u, which doesn't have many upgrade options, so I was thinking of setting it up permanently. For some strange reason, this computer is running very poorly, and I can't add RAM or anything (everything is soldered). I thought that reaching this level might offer better performance, since Debian with XFCE seems really unattractive to me. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, liked and subscribed.
Do you think FreeBSD should adopt ESM approach that Ubuntu implemented for their LTS release so prolong releases so people don't have to upgrade as often?
Maybe,.... you could install FreeBSD-STABLE and have a kind of rolling release - that's what GhostBSD does.... but the install process from one version to another has been flawless for me for the last few years, and having a boot snapshot take place before you decide to upgrade really does help in case something goes wrong.....
@@RoboNuggie FreeBSD supports a release for five years and if they could extend to ten years, I think it might be better for businesses so they can deal with major upgrades less often. Let me know your opinion if this is something that it's better suited for user or businesses.
wonder would it work on a AMG GPU, i am having trouble with , restarts , xfce never worked, at least plasma works for sometime but reboots. Has its own mind for some reason. I installed freeBSD 14.
on older nvidia with BIOS booting, I can crash plasma on command by merely switching to a virtual terminal and back to xorg. You will likely find better help with issues on the mailing list among other sources but knowing the specific GPU and which drm-*-kmod you are using would help. You can likely try other versions of drm; usually newest is better but with changes there are bugs that work in too sometimes. Is it a full machine reboot, the whole GUI, or just a part like plasma?
For WiFi I always first (on cable) go to desktop environment install networkmgr and use that to connect to WiFi. No need for any configuration by hand (except for the password).
I don't habe a laptop at hand, and I don't know what model you have, but here is something you can try... (as root): kldload acpi_video (and then any of these) pkg install xbacklight pkg install gammy pkg install lxqt-config.
In my experience I had to install it from pkg/ports when I last tried with 14.0. My motherboard had 2 ports and the other was a measly, but supported, 1gigabit. The native driver seemed to cause less issues than the one from pkg/ports in my limited testing.
Muchas gracias por el video, soy usuario de Void Linux tanto en mi pc personal con btrfs y subvolumenes creados para las snapshots y en una pc antigua con ext4 que lo uso como servidor casero para peliculas y videos, me animé e instale FreeBSD14.1 y me pareció muy facil (estoy acostumbrado a las instalaciones por linea de comando) me parece excelente pero de verdad no logro arrancar xorg, lo instale en maquina virtual con kvm qemu y busque informaciom, segui varios tutoriales pero nunca logro arrancar un entorno de escritorio. Tengo q buscar alguna portatil con intel-video a ver que sucede. Gracias 👍🏻
Not really, it's a play on the term daemon, which in this case isn't referring the little thing that's smells of sulphur but to the running background task in Unix like OS's....so a cartoon version of a daemon was drawn up called Beastie, again a play on words. FreeBSD then introduced an official logo called Orb, which took on the colouring and a little of the mascot design....namely the ears..... but no, it's not a devil :-)
The presenter seems to still be on quarterly, not latest channel for the repository, so it is the reason he doesn't find kde6, but don't use it anyway. It hardly works.
I do use doas, sometimes..... perhaps not as much as I should - and I suppose it is laziness, that when doing multiple commands in root, I tend to use "su -", Bad habit I suppose :-)
I’m getting closer and closer to 100 percent FreeBSD. Still have an issue with installing the Linux chromium web browser so I can watch my videos on Udemy which unfortunately not is DRM free. There is a conflict between py39 and py311 markdown. I don’t know how to fix that. Looking for a solution.
20240529 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING has information about migrating from 39 to 311 as default. Users of pkg can run `pkg updating | less` to find the entry too. If already attempted and still stuck, it would be wise to reach out to the FreeBSD ports (unless there is a python specific) mailing list.
What are soft updates?🤔 Why doesn't FreeBSD offer iso's with Xfce, Mate or KDE desktops like Linux does? Or iso's with for instance Calamares installer? Guhnome😜
Filesystem modification history to prevent corruption from power loss. Didn't notice the improvements yet. I was still using FAT for any critical storage. That's instant write and verify in exchange for expensive system calls.
Did you enable ntpd and its sync on start when you tried 14.1 on the RPi? In my head, ntpd should take care of setting the time in the OS, regardless of an RTC.
@ximalas didn't on the recent install, the weird thing is I never had any issues on the PI before until the 14.1 release.... I must admit it threw me until someone told me it was a date issue.... so from now on I will set that on every new install on the Pi...
