and Hello System, this is very early still

and Hello System, this is very early still

What about FreeNAS?

it is for desktops?

no

FreeNAS/TrueNAS is for NAS

FreeNAS/TrueNAS is for NAS

what is NAS?

It's a network attached storage server

I use Freebsd with xfce it works very well just a bit difficult to install for newbies

In my experience all BSD could be used as excellent and stable workstation operating systems as long as you know about UNIX, X11 and related tools.

It's a network attached storage server

Thanks man.

If it's not the case you might prefer a system like Nomad or GhostBSD that installs a graphical user interface and applications for you, and I think they're great to win time if you don't have much and want to have a working and well configured BSD desktop.

I use Freebsd with xfce it works very well just a bit difficult to install for newbies

Yes,specially with zfs file system.

FreeBSD has desktop support too, but it is not powerfull support as i know.

From the channel last week or so: https://t.me/FreeBSD/25 I've been using it as main desktop for over a year and is stable, works rock solid

From the channel last week or so: https://t.me/FreeBSD/25 I've been using it as main desktop for over a year and is stable, works rock solid

Nice. You are writing shell script?

Nice. You are writing shell script?

A bit. Mostly for custom functionality to my desktop

A bit. Mostly for custom functionality to my desktop

your written scripts are in the github?

if yes, can i see your github account?

your written scripts are in the github?

Not github but similar. You can find some shell scripts inside the .scripts directory https://codeberg.org/n0mad/freeBSD-bspwm-config

Not github but similar. You can find some shell scripts inside the .scripts directory https://codeberg.org/n0mad/freeBSD-bspwm-config

Thanks man.

Not github but similar. You can find some shell scripts inside the .scripts directory https://codeberg.org/n0mad/freeBSD-bspwm-config

Also at base level there's the install.sh script too

Also at base level there's the install.sh script too

you are writing scripts with which shell?

bash?

bash is linuxism 🙃

bash is linuxism 🙃

:/ bash is in the repository.

bash?

- bash for lemonbar (for escaping unicode bitmap fonts) - sh for the rest

bash is a shell.

- bash for lemonbar (for escaping unicode bitmap fonts) - sh for the rest

Nice.

Bash is okay. Just take notice that all scripts written in sh will work in bash, but not the other way

Bash is okay. Just take notice that all scripts written in sh will work in bash, but not the other way

Hmm.

bash is linuxism 🙃

😝

Hmm.

You can have both installed, and call the one you want to execute your script at the first line

There's some case where bash respects the standard better than most sh implementation I've used, for example: sh -c 'func() :' and bash -c 'func() :'

You can have both installed, and call the one you want to execute your script at the first line

IK,called shebang.

#!

😝

There's some case where bash respects the standard better than most sh implementation I've used, for example: sh -c 'func() :' and bash -c 'func() :'

Cool. Good to know

some sh implementation (dash in mind) are more coherent with some special variables, for example unset OPTIND or OPTIND= won't work where it will in other shell, but you're not supposed to do that anyway

friends which extension do you recommend in Freebsd zfs or ufs, on a laptop

which filesystem you mean, how much ram do you dispose ?

I have only 8G of RAM

Only 😯

I would say it may be short for zfs, it depends which features of zfs you'll use.

Go zfs

Hi guys, another newbie here. I have a 10 yrs old notebook, 32 bit, 6 GB RAM. I would like to install FreeBSD 13 with DE on it. Any recomendation on which DE to use? I tried Xfce on VirtualBox but could not configure it properly

I guess it depends on your taste

gnome should be fine

But why 32bit?

6gb ram! :)))

6gb ram! :)))

Yeah 😅

But why 32bit?

It Is old 32 bit machine

It Is old 32 bit machine

Thats why I am asking, I Guess some DEs could have a problem with that

friends which DE do you recommend for freebsd

I personally use a wm, kde is lovely though

I use kde in archlinux but I want to leave freebsd as the main os on my laptop

I personally use a wm, kde is lovely though

some particular link to install freebsd with kde plasma

just install base freebsd and install kde from ports/pkg

👍

it is very rare 32 bits with 6g ram?

are you sure it is 32 bits?

it is very rare 32 bits with 6g ram?

the thing is that a 32bit cpu can address at most 4gb, so it's a bit useless to have 6gb

there are extensions

some particular link to install freebsd with kde plasma

Here

there are extensions

yes while they do exists, they still have some limitations

It really is 32 bit

Here

Although there is a new version of KDE so: $ doas pkg install kde5

I will try GNOME, i did use it on 32 bit Debian and it was ok

I will try GNOME, i did use it on 32 bit Debian and it was ok

It should work fine. I'd suggest XFCE but seems they are heavier on resources these days

Xfce seems more tricky to configure

What is this man?

Although there is a new version of KDE so: $ doas pkg install kde5

another question you use pkg or ports to install programs

another question you use pkg or ports to install programs

pkgs are compiled ports, if you are ok with default flags then go ahead and install pkgs, otherwise install from ports

on my installation the majority are pkgs, I have very few compiled ports, like ffmpeg

Perfect

I install 12.2 or 13

13 is better and will be final stable release in a few days

now 13 is release candidate 5

some particular link to install freebsd with kde plasma

You have this link

https://leonardcucos.com/how-to-install-freebsd-with-kde-plasma-5-2021/

And you have a script called "desktop-installer" which will guide you through the steps of installing X and a desktop of your choice

And you have a script called "desktop-installer" which will guide you through the steps of installing X and a desktop of your choice

in version 5 brings the script?