The Uncle
I'm happy to be here ...
The Uncle
got a journey to start with FreeBSD but first need your guidance, possible ?
The Uncle
I'm currently fetching the VHD to test FreeBSD on VBox or KVM but i'd like to know what ISO is the best for installing on a laptop without worrying too much
The Uncle
the list is long here
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I'm currently fetching the VHD to test FreeBSD on VBox or KVM but i'd like to know what ISO is the best for installing on a laptop without worrying too much
FreeBSD 12.2 RELEASE has a VHD to test. I'd go with that. If your hardware is too new then you can try with the FreeBSD13 CURRENT
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The Uncle
I love DVD images but which on between the 2 here ?
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The iso one should be fine
The Uncle
also there is a memstick img and don't fully understand the need of it while there are ISO that (i guess) we can burn on USB drives
The Uncle
The iso one should be fine
the .xz is the compressed version of the .iso right ?
The Uncle
okay ! High compression then when I consider the size difference
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But I think it was more suited for older network connections and now with the standard iso is fine. If you go with the compressed version, you need to use xz to decompress the image when downloaded
The Uncle
I'm going for normal .iso
The Uncle
I want to have xmonad installed on it, does Xmonad exist on the FreeBSD repos ?
The Uncle
can you recommend some good tutos that I can watch to understand the FreeBSD concept
The Uncle
???
Eliab/Andi
https://youtube.com/c/RoboNuggie @TheUncleMez
Eliab/Andi
https://t.me/worldwidebsd
Yea it's good too
The Uncle
Yeah. $ pkg install hs-xmonad
Mama mia ... Lovely!
The Uncle
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I'm sure after a couple hours messing around with the system you're gonna feel it like home (:
The Uncle
My need are to speed, less crashes, better monitor handling and few other stuffs.
The Uncle
I don't use that much of apps on my Linux box, currently on i3 as my WM (i guess it's present on FreeBSD) and make good use of Telegram ... also expect it to be latest version on FreeBSD
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I don't use that much of apps on my Linux box, currently on i3 as my WM (i guess it's present on FreeBSD) and make good use of Telegram ... also expect it to be latest version on FreeBSD
Both available on FreeBSD yep. Almost at the latest version. The good part of FreeBSD is that you can opt to build the packages from source tailoring them to your needs in almost no time. If you want to find available packages in the web: https://pkgs.org And source ports: https://www.freshports.org Inside the system you can use: $ pkg search pkg_name Or for source ports: $ cd /usr/ports && make search name=port_name
The Uncle
Oh the pkg thing is similar to dnf way to playing around ...
Eliab/Andi
Can anybody recommend a good app Woking with Wacom tablet On win or Linux I use Openboard
Eliab/Andi
On linux and windows i use their driver+app straight
On windows I use also MS Whiteboard
The Uncle
for precise work like drawing ?
Eliab/Andi
For tutoring Math etc
The Uncle
Oh then I can't help
The Uncle
I'm not into scientific lifestyle
The Uncle
😊
The Uncle
Can we talk about resources usage/consumption on FreeBSD ?
The Uncle
is there a clear difference in terms of resources usage between FreeBSD and Linux ?
siduck
it just depends on the user, how bad he trims down the useless resource usage :D
The Uncle
there shouldnt be much !
Possible to enlight me on this
The Uncle
installed gnome-boxes but can't make my FreeBSD to load and install in VM
The Uncle
now installing KVM Hypervisor to see if it will make it
neb
And the official FreeBSD channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxLxR_oW-NAmChIcSkAyZGQ
The Uncle
watching now
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Can anybody recommend a good app Woking with Wacom tablet On win or Linux I use Openboard
Since Openboard seems to be the best of class in what it does, have you tried this approaches to run it under FreeBSD? 1- use brandelf https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=brandelf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE&format=html 2- Linux Binary Compatibility https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html
The Uncle
FreeBSD is like Linux when I first met it but also it seem to me like it is more intelligent from the same starting point
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FreeBSD is like Linux when I first met it but also it seem to me like it is more intelligent from the same starting point
You also have more control over the system since you know, there's no underground jobs managed by systemd and such...
The Uncle
it's great and I can feel that ... like less dependances, much cleaner
The Uncle
also, i don't absolutely need sodu right ?
The Uncle
doas is what we rely on ... am i right on this?
The Uncle
telegram is at v2.4.4
Sylvain
doas is what we rely on ... am i right on this?
I think doas is a simpler implementation (if Iam not mistaken) than sudo. I would compare both manpages
Anonymous
also, i don't absolutely need sodu right ?
nope. you don't need sudo if you have doas ( doas currently ported to *bsd, linux and some solaris based oses)
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I think doas is a simpler implementation (if Iam not mistaken) than sudo. I would compare both manpages
doas come from OpenBSD. It can operate the same way. For a regular user who wants elevated permissions for daily stuff like install pkgs or mount drives both sudo and doas suit the job (:
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The Uncle
Sylvain
Watched this yesterday
I still need to binge on the whole playlist/channel ;p
The Uncle
it seem like FreeBSD repos can be slow when it comes to fetch a big pkg
The Uncle
more than 5min now since i'm trying to fetch a 88MiB pkg
The Uncle
llvm10-10.0.1_4 88MiB
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https://youtu.be/o_AIw9bGogo
Very informative talk. Thanks for sharing (:
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Dbus isn't required for X system. If a package needs it, it will install as a dependency
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