I use FreeBSD since Version 2.1 - on Servers, PCs and Laptops. And it works... I like it! I know there is some more handwork to do - but... in many cases it gives a deeper and better insight into the OS 🙂 This is a benefit from my point of view... Mostly. Cheers, Norbert
@@ngtube9 Reminds me of Terry Davis. He liked tinkering with OS and when asked why, he said, "Because it is fun". OS shouldn't be a bootloader for the browser
I'm watching this video from FreeBSD 13.2 installed on my Lenovo T440s laptop. I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop OS for more than 3 years and don't want to switch back to Linux.
Definitly 🙂 Despite some problems with FreeBSD - I also had Problems with Windows, Apple and Linux. Apple cannot find printers after upgrade, A Ubuntu Laptop rebooted daily, which worked perfectly under FreeBSD... So *BSD is worth to take a look at 🙂
problem with bsd's is even MOSTopen source enthusiast and contributers forget abt it .I think we should try to make most of things that work on linux also work on the bsd's to try and prevent duplication and since i think they are in posix family it wouldn't be that hard
Kinda yes, but Linux is a commercial product, it is not some ethereal public good thing as most people present it to be, so those commercial interests made weird things happen in linux which should be cancelled and not promoted or integrated to other software, i have nothing against commercial use of freebsd (i think netflix uses it). you mentioned POSIX -it is old fashion way of thinking, we know for decades(199X) it makes software harder less efficient then it needs to be.
We need POSIX compatibility not because it is better, but because old software/OSes are using it and for our new software to work, we need to be able to integrate, function in existing environment. It is API, when you program email client, you do not make new API, you use what Gmail provides to you, same with OSes.
FreeBSD definitely seems cool. Have you run it as a daily driver on bare metal? I'm sure the core kernel stuff is rock-solid and it'd be great for running a server, but if you try to do desktop user things with GPU drivers, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if there were problems, probably with the drivers themselves and not core FreeBSD. That is also where desktop Linux always has problems on my machines.
Mine is 5 years old now - Nvidia provides official drivers, and KDE has been rock solid. Upgrading the OS from one major version to another has been painless. ZFS automatic snapshots has saved my bacon on a couple of occasions too
@@steveoc64 KDE what, bro? Manjaro on my pc works pretty good though. Been experimenting with it for about 2 months and finally wiped out windows from dual boot, got a virtual box with win7x32 for some college stuff and doing great. Especially when I know I can't get some malware and snapshots even on ext4 is as pretty good as the system itself.
KDE 5 I think I’m rocking on that box. 6 is out now apparently. Manjaro is good fun, it’s lean and mean and well sorted. Just getting to use the terminal more, and dicking around with networks and VMs, you learn heaps. Programming tools in Linux/bsd are really next level too
I am so looking forward to that FreeBSD DIY distro tutorial. If possible, could you go over how to create symlinks within the iso? I wanna try my hand at recreating the GoboLinux filesystem hierarchy in a FreeBSD-based system.
C programming a modern approach is what I started with a few years ago. It's a good book to get the basics of C. The only thing that really changes is how people handle "safe" string inputs and file inputs I believe.
not really an explanation video, i'd have loved to see something about the history of bsd and how it's different from linux because for my usecase i see no reasons why i would bother using such a limited system, especially with how well linux is supported nowadays
It is UNIX. It was meant to be easy. The problem with Linux was that they just created a kernel and called it a day. The kernel was damn good, but many people who built the other software around it was overly complex (nerds amiright?) like systemd and different packages and whatnot
Might be a nit pick or these days completely wrong but I never thought of FreeBSD as Unix like I always thought of it as the last remaining Unix since it actually contains Unix source code and was directly based in Unix in the past
about "explained" - I would expect a few words why we should bother about FBSD?! what is the added value compared to Linux ? FBSD saved my life 30 years ago, I am still grateful.
Hi Nir bro, what's up? Bro, why could we have some problems when installing some distributions of linux OS? I've tried to install Manjaro Linux distro, Budgie desktop environment in virtual box, but for some reason that I don't know, I had the problem with pre-assigned password to login in to that system which has been dealt when installation process was being happening. But when I've completed the whole installation process of Manjaro OS in virtual box, it asks for me a password, but the actual pre-assigned password wasn't working to log in to the system What do you think about this, have you ever had this kind of usage experience of one of linux distros?
I would note that you should look at actuall used ram and not used + cached RAM, because cached RAM can be assigned to any other process when needed at any time.
@@KarolBikes Thanks, But after calculating it gives the same value of using ram compared to Voidlinux, I guess is, it has more processes running compared to void. My wishing is to study which processes I don't need to eliminate them.
Well Linux is just the kernel, yes, but the full name would be GNU/Linux which is the kernel + userland programs, which usually come compiled as a distribution. And so is FreeBSD more or less a distribution of BSD like OpenBSD or NetBSD.
Those three BSD “distributions” in question are forked from decades of old code from BSD4.4 and alike. It’s been so long that they must be pretty much completely independent of each other. At least Linux distributions share the exact same kernel, but surely you can’t compare the definition of a Linux distribution to modern BSD-based operating systems? Don’t basically all of them have their own independent user land now as well, following the same logic? (Exception e.g. DragonflyBSD)
The full name would only be GNU+Linux (not GNU/Linux as you have put it) if and only if the distribution shipped contains GNU software. Distributions like Alpine Linux do not ship with GNU software and thus cannot be referred to as such. Edit: i use arch btw P.S. if you look into it, GNU actually has their own OS separate from Linux but I doubt it's had much attention recently
Because Linux containers / docker is still a total mess. BSD + jails is good for a stable platform where you want years of continuous uptime. On desktop, FreeBSD is pretty niche, but the audio is a lot better than Linux at least. It’s actually not a bad platform for a gaming PC. For a dev workstation- bhyve is decidedly good for running lots of VMs
MacOS and Android are unix-like, and their community is not exactly niche or small, in fact the only popular operating system that is not unix-like is Windows.
It's free software so almost everything that's properly developed is available there too. Also, the BSDs are much more technically strong compared to OS distributions based on Linux.
Please do not use 32bit versions of anything, let 32 be dead. by using 32 bit versions youre sending statistics that you used it/installed it/ downloaded it and developers of such software will not be deprecating 32bit bs, because they will think people NEED to use it. software, OSes, etc will be simpler without need to support 32bit, and less people having to deal with ancient stuff means more poeple to make good things happen and do forward looking stuff. I do understand most people do not think about this, it is ok. Thank you.
@@GameBacardi Technically it is dead technically 20 years, but people did not noticed. And again, those 32 bit ISOs exist only because people download still them, so it looks for maintainer that people need them, but they do not need them they download them because they are confused, not because technical reasons. And trolling channels like LTT do not help either.
