A Quick Installation Of FreeBSD 13.0 DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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LVLouisCyphre
I've been using FreeBSD off and on since 2.1.6. Prior to that I cut my teeth in the IT business supporting Suns when the Sun SPARCstation 1 made its debut in 1989. SunOS 4.x is a BSD variant.
In my last house in my loft/office area I had a FreeBSD computing cluster and lab running FDDI and 100BTX hardware with a Cisco 4700M, a C1400 FDDI concentrator and a Cisco WS-C2924M-XL. FDDI NICs were dirt cheap on eBay plus I like the redundant architecture of FDDI. I had a Sun 386i and a Sun 4c/60 (SPARCstation 1) in my test area. I also a SCO Xenix and upgraded to a ISC Unix 2.x UUCP site in my apartment. This was back when the Internet was a network of dialup systems and also during the dialup BBS era. My loft/office was a Unix geek's paradise. I could have run a small ISP and hosting service out of my home.
I absolutely hate Linux. There are times I will use some canned disaster recovery distributions on a USB drive, but other than that. BLAH! If I need to go and wrench my servers and the operating system, I will choose FreeBSD or any BSD, for that matter, long before I'll dink with Linux.
If you're running a server farm or a custom firewall/router/VPN, I would run BSD.
It's also important to note that FreeBSD, and probably all BSDs, have Linux emulation. There's a lot of cross pollination of code between BSD and Linux and between the three BSD projects; Free, Net and Open. Just because it doesn't exist in FreeBSD doesn't mean you can't make it run under FreeBSD.
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I've been using FreeBSD off and on since 2.1.6. Prior to that I cut my teeth in the IT business supporting Suns when the Sun SPARCstation 1 made its debut in 1989. SunOS 4.x is a BSD variant.
In my last house in my loft/office area I had a FreeBSD computing cluster and lab running FDDI and 100BTX hardware with a Cisco 4700M, a C1400 FDDI concentrator and a Cisco WS-C2924M-XL. FDDI NICs were dirt cheap on eBay plus I like the redundant architecture of FDDI. I had a Sun 386i and a Sun 4c/60 (SPARCstation 1) in my test area. I also a SCO Xenix and upgraded to a ISC Unix 2.x UUCP site in my apartment. This was back when the Internet was a network of dialup systems and also during the dialup BBS era. My loft/office was a Unix geek's paradise. I could have run a small ISP and hosting service out of my home.
I absolutely hate Linux. There are times I will use some canned disaster recovery distributions on a USB drive, but other than that. BLAH! If I need to go and wrench my servers and the operating system, I will choose FreeBSD or any BSD, for that matter, long before I'll dink with Linux.
If you're running a server farm or a custom firewall/router/VPN, I would run BSD.
It's also important to note that FreeBSD, and probably all BSDs, have Linux emulation. There's a lot of cross pollination of code between BSD and Linux and between the three BSD projects; Free, Net and Open. Just because it doesn't exist in FreeBSD doesn't mean you can't make it run under FreeBSD.
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ReaperX7
Got back into FreeBSD recently. It's actually a very fleshed out OS these days. The Linux Compatibility layer is not as good as it could be, but it is good enough to work well with a lot of software, and I have been experimenting with emulators and some games. It really feels closer to Slackware than other Linux distributions.
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Got back into FreeBSD recently. It's actually a very fleshed out OS these days. The Linux Compatibility layer is not as good as it could be, but it is good enough to work well with a lot of software, and I have been experimenting with emulators and some games. It really feels closer to Slackware than other Linux distributions.
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Nicholas
Very useful guide. I did this on hyper-v with a gnome GUI but I had to add a line -kern.evdev.rcpt_mask=6- to /etc/sysctl.conf to get the keyboard working. According to a few forum posts there was a recent change to get it working on Hyper-v. Only issue is that it has to be done prior to having the gui run at startup.
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Very useful guide. I did this on hyper-v with a gnome GUI but I had to add a line -kern.evdev.rcpt_mask=6- to /etc/sysctl.conf to get the keyboard working. According to a few forum posts there was a recent change to get it working on Hyper-v. Only issue is that it has to be done prior to having the gui run at startup.
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kychemclass
DT could you do a video on installing -tar- like files or .deb files. and how to use the make command
I had to download some packages (window style) and can't really get it to run properly after extracting the downloaded file. I'm sure you know what I'm trying to describe. It's probably a noob issue.
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DT could you do a video on installing -tar- like files or .deb files. and how to use the make command
I had to download some packages (window style) and can't really get it to run properly after extracting the downloaded file. I'm sure you know what I'm trying to describe. It's probably a noob issue.
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it_industry
Hey DT, don't confuse maturity of a code base with hardware support, BSD is more stable than Linux and BSD is a lot more modern than Linux, among the UNIX researchers Linux is a joke because it remains in the past with lots of things it has while BSD has continue to evolve and improve.
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Hey DT, don't confuse maturity of a code base with hardware support, BSD is more stable than Linux and BSD is a lot more modern than Linux, among the UNIX researchers Linux is a joke because it remains in the past with lots of things it has while BSD has continue to evolve and improve.
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Izlude
Literally got 90% of my programs going, woohoo. The OS is rock solid. We're just waiting on the lazy bums that work on WINE. I say screw the clean room. There's so much gray area and you can always blame leaks on China :P give us full compatibility WINE devs, NAO! xD
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Literally got 90% of my programs going, woohoo. The OS is rock solid. We're just waiting on the lazy bums that work on WINE. I say screw the clean room. There's so much gray area and you can always blame leaks on China :P give us full compatibility WINE devs, NAO! xD
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johto
Or just use MacOS (its UNIX) but actually works for desktop use out of the box. Imho these -BSD's and Linux distros are fine for servers but no way in hell would i use one for daily desktop - --hugs my Apple M1--
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Or just use MacOS (its UNIX) but actually works for desktop use out of the box. Imho these -BSD's and Linux distros are fine for servers but no way in hell would i use one for daily desktop - --hugs my Apple M1--
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Ebenezer
We all know who to blame. WINE devs. They swear by a clean room, but all they have to do is blame it on China. All we need is simple WoW64 support and we could be running Adobe CC suite on FreeBSD.
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We all know who to blame. WINE devs. They swear by a clean room, but all they have to do is blame it on China. All we need is simple WoW64 support and we could be running Adobe CC suite on FreeBSD.
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Landu
Till now, I was happy to use Linux. But your video inspired me to try BSD. So I have installed OpenBSD 7.0 with xfce Desktop Environment in my VM. I am enjoying learning new things--
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Till now, I was happy to use Linux. But your video inspired me to try BSD. So I have installed OpenBSD 7.0 with xfce Desktop Environment in my VM. I am enjoying learning new things--
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Mohamed
Hello I am IT engineer I have tested freebsd for two weeks and I found that there are many problems on driver's i think that Linux still always the better on drivers and software
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Hello I am IT engineer I have tested freebsd for two weeks and I found that there are many problems on driver's i think that Linux still always the better on drivers and software
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