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[Comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20525142) by drewg123 on July 25, 2019 > I met Linus at the Linux BOF at the 1994 Boston USENIX. Very ironically, I have Linus to thank for a long career using FreeBSD. It sounds like a cheap shot, but please hear me out: > >I was sysadmin'ing a university stats department at the time, and NFS use was very important. I had been trying to use Linux on 486's, but performance of xdvi (with NFS mounted fonts) was abysmal. A 486 would take minutes to render the same page that a wimpy DECStation could render in a second. From tcpdump, I figured out it was because Linux did not do any sort of NFS caching at the time, and xdvi wandered around font files one byte at a time. > >I asked Linus at the BOF when they planned to implement NFS. He told me NFS was unimportant, nobody used it, and so on. > >I then attended the FreeBSD BOF where a clean shaven guy in a collared shirt was giving a power point presentation. I asked about NFS there, and was told it should work fine. When I got home from the conference, I switched the 486 to FreeBSD, and it worked just fine. > >I eventually did OS research on FreeBSD, was one of a few people to port FreeBSD to the DEC Alpha, and I now do kernel performance work for a large CDN, where we run FreeBSD.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23633869 > How could I get started with BSD? > > hello, > > I want to learn and deep dive into BSD systems. I am a Linux user for more than 3 years and now I am curious to learn and use BSD since BSD is similar to Linux and has binary compatibility. > > sadly my laptop wifi card isn't supported by any BSD systems. so I can't use it as my daily driver. so where should I go or do to learn more about BSD?
it-notes.dragas.net
cross-posted from: https://blendit.bsd.cafe/post/140936 > cross-posted from: https://blendit.bsd.cafe/post/140935 > > > Since migrating many servers from Proxmox to FreeBSD, we have consistently felt that the VMs are more responsive. It's time to conduct some concrete tests.
tinsuke.wordpress.com
Just a guide on how I got MariaDB working instead of SQLite for my [PhotoPrism](https://www.photoprism.app/) instance running on a FreeBSD jail.
Case Study: Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD
I saw that the FreeBSD Foundation announced it was working with Framework to certify their laptops to be able to run FreeBSD out of the box. I am currently running GhostBSD (FreeBSD-based for anyone who is unfamiliar) and was wondering some things about reporting bugs. 1) Do I just report them to the normal Bugzilla tracker? Or is there somewhere else I should report bugs? 2) Is it a problem that I'm running GhostBSD instead of normal FreeBSD? I know it is based on FreeBSD Stable, but I wanted to check in case it would be different enough that I should be reporting elsewhere.
fosstodon.org
Attached: 1 image News from the [@FreeBSDFoundation](https://mastodon.social/@FreeBSDFoundation) "A frequent request from the [#FreeBSD](https://kbin.social/tag/FreeBSD) community and fan base is a curated list of laptops validated to run FreeBSD out of the box. To this end, we've recently begun discussions with one of our favorite laptop companies, Framework Stay tuned!" (Edited out Puter from the bird site)
mastodon.social
Discovered their Mastodon profile while reading their recent blog post: [2023 in Review: Advocacy](https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2023-in-review-advocacy/)
github.com
cross-posted from: https://blendit.bsd.cafe/post/7865 > cross-posted from: https://blendit.bsd.cafe/post/7858 > > > We spent the weekend putting the final touches on Bastille 0.10.20231125! > > > > Major features and fixes include: > > * bootstrap #FreeBSD BETA and RC releases > > * bootstrap EOL #FreeBSD releases (>=9.0) > > * improved jail startup dependency using rcorder(8) > > * combine create options, eg: -CV, -TB, etc > > * fixes to bastille setup > > * more!
What would be the proper location for placin bhyve VMs in the FreeBSD filesystem structure. Somewhere in /usr/local, i guess?
Just wondering if anyone has tried or managed to run a lemmy instance on a FreeBSD jail. I have had a look on the repository and docker seems to be required. Or am I wrong?
If you attempt to install *virtualbox-ose-kmod* in release 13.2 the message ``` .. To avoid crashes due to kernel incompatibility, this module will only load on FreeBSD 13.1 kernels. ``` will be displayed, and it is not able to be loaded into the kernel with *kldload* or at boot by adding `vboxdrv_enable=YES` to */boot/loader.conf*. Does anyone know why this is?
In this tutorial I'll explain how to install the jwm window manager on FreeBSD.
In this tutorial, I explain how to install and set up Vaultwarden on FreeBSD.
In this tutorial I'll explain how to install Airsonic on FreeBSD.
vermaden.wordpress.com
Lets try how this FreeBSD community works :)
When running KDE on a Linux system there is a plasma-vault tool to allow easily creating encrypted directories using various encryption backends. Sadly it seems that plasma-vault is missing from the FreeBSD repos, including the latest repos. Has anyone tried to build this for FreeBSD?
tilvids.com
I installed FreeBSD a few days ago. So far the experience is pretty good: While it starts with a very minimal system, it's relatively easy to build it up to something "normal", in my case a KDE desktop. The biggest change compared to linux I have to get used to is that the documentation seems often to be better than a search on the internet. Case in point was my 60 minute effort fixing a DNS leak with my VPN: After spending some time managing the openvpn connection and automating it on startup, I noticed that I'm leaking DNS... Spent some time searching the net, until I found and followed [30.7.2. DNS Server Configuration ](https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/network-servers/#network-dns) in the handbook, which explains how to set the system DNS. After getting the public DNS from my VPN provider, and following the instructions in the manual, the leaks were gone... I remember having chased DNS leaks in linux for weeks.... Quite happy so far :)
Looking into FreeBSD at the moment and quite like what I read so far. Looked for books and got this... Thought the opinionated search engine was quite funny :) Will still install it anyway... :P
