I'm also curious, what are your primary reasons for using BSD (and specifically FreeBSD) over Linux? License and project ethos? More uniformity? ZFS?

For those of you that use FreeBSD on desktop daily, which DE do you prefer? I’m coming from Debian XFCE. Any general suggestions?

For those of you that use FreeBSD on desktop daily, which DE do you prefer? I’m coming from Debian XFCE. Any general suggestions?

I'm also curious, what are your primary reasons for using BSD (and specifically FreeBSD) over Linux? License and project ethos? More uniformity? ZFS?

I'm also curious, what are your primary reasons for using BSD (and specifically FreeBSD) over Linux? License and project ethos? More uniformity? ZFS?

ahhh found it https://lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-questions

Link points to actually non-existing link

Thanks for all of the responses. Does anyone dual boot? I (regretfully) have to with Windows -- can't run in a VM or Wine. I'm thinking it shouldn't be too difficult if I format each OS to separate drives. I anticipate getting the bootloader to work properly will be the biggest hurdle.

For me: - userland and kernel being both made by the FreeBSD project, unlike GNU userland with Linux kernel - no systemd - way less bloated kernel than Linux - jails - ports - ZFS working better than on GNU/Linux (but be sure to know how to use it or it may be confusing) And last but not least, a better, less toxic community... Sure there are awesome people in the GNU/Linux community, but it's also full of toxic Arch elitists and similar. P.s. I also love GNU/Linux, indeed I still use Devuan on one laptop and will install Gentoo on another computer

What does it use instead of systemd?

rc You can use OpenRC too iirc

rc You can use OpenRC too iirc

What does it use instead of systemd?

Thanks for all of the responses. Does anyone dual boot? I (regretfully) have to with Windows -- can't run in a VM or Wine. I'm thinking it shouldn't be too difficult if I format each OS to separate drives. I anticipate getting the bootloader to work properly will be the biggest hurdle.

Why do you regret it? There's no shame in dual booting

Doesn't that also exists in Linux? How is it considered an advantage over Linux

I remember that OpenRC was developed by OpenBSD?

I remember that OpenRC was developed by OpenBSD?

@DemonLemonVemom Does hardened BSD provide binary packages?

Thanks for all of the responses. Does anyone dual boot? I (regretfully) have to with Windows -- can't run in a VM or Wine. I'm thinking it shouldn't be too difficult if I format each OS to separate drives. I anticipate getting the bootloader to work properly will be the biggest hurdle.

Hello everyone! Need some help, not able to connect to ftp.freebsd.org from any device on my network. Looks like my IP or my IP range is blocked, cuz I'm able to connect from mobile internet. I have installed FreeBSD 13.0 but was not able to install/upgrade any packages. Is there another way to install ports/packages? or another repo?

Is there also a list of pkg repos?

maybe you could find another mirror from here https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/mirrors/

In this link did not say anything about that how we can use FTP links/mirrors for downloading and installing packages. Do you have any manual page or document for that?

Sorry, no

Hello. Why dont't i get the time in my time zone

What time zone are you in?

Hi everyone why repositories and download speed in pkg is so low? every thing has good speed except pkg It's max speed is 80 kB/s

you can change mirror. Mirror can throttle traffic due to high number of clients

did it but not a single package called "Ip" found :(

did it but not a single package called "Ip" found :(

Are you looking for the Linux "ip" command? In BSD "ifconfig" is still used, not the "ip" command (which comes in the iproute2 package in Linux distros).

If you cannot find how to download iso, then this is not an operating system for you.

Does anyone here run 13.0 on a Thinkpad T480 or X220? I’ve found some forum threads and blog posts claiming that hardware compatibility for the T480 is relatively good.