Strangely enough it is not FreeBSDs forum in the sense of the OS, but it is a forum of the FreeBSD foundation which acts as a sponsor.
i scanned the thread and saw this post along the way. I am new to FreeBSD and i haven't investigated ports just yet. I searched the web for a description of poudriere and i decided to add it to my ports. 2.5 hours later (SpongeBob), i had to crash VirtualBox because it was 3am and i had to go to bed - remember that i am testing FreeBSD in VirtualBox on my cheap ASUS laptop and i can only allot it 1.758 of my 4GB of RAM. I think that this is mostly Python stuff 0.0 whatever happened to C/CPP coders? gcc make build compile and enjoy. I think that i will skip the ports stuff. git and poudriere (i know, powder keg) explode a clean FreeBSD and it is a very large kA-bOOm.maybe I am doing something wrong with poudriere.
but sometimes, plans do not work out the way that we envision them. I will try it out and hopefully, it is an end all to my Windows woes...That is a bit too much for someone new to FreeBSD. Poudriere is basically a way to reproduce the entire production infrastructure of FreeBSD. It is fantastic for automating a lot of the chores, but to make use of it, one has to have a good handle on how stuff is organized, how the data moves, how to resolve errors...
First time you mention this in this thread. There's nothing to remember. Just know this: FreeBSD does offer lightweight desktops for this kind of hardware, but do stay away from resource-heavy software like Firefox and KDE. You're lucky VirtualBox can launch at all on your 4 GB RAM laptop. If you want to do the cool stuff like Poudriere, you do need much beefier specs for your metal.
Just like any proprietary / commercial OS, you need to isolate it behind a i.e SOCKS proxy.
Now that, I do disagree with. McAfee tried to be a replacement, and failed miserably by making the cure even worse than the problem it tried to solve. The namesake (a British programmer, BTW) would probably turning over his grave, if he knew just how bad it got!
Typically updates are rolled out via WSUS in the enterprise. Windows update is for consumer machines and is far too chaotic.
I still have memories of spending a solid week working with people above me on the Corporate IT ladder. My machine was frankly VERY well maintained and compliant with all the security policies, it had all the certs necessary for authentication in lots of places. But when McAfee was finally, after months of investigation, discovered as the culprit behind the sudden printing issues (nobody could send a job to a networked printer on corporate networks), it was a huge pain to rectify. McAfee was actually removed from my machine, and I was told, "Hey, just let Microsoft be the AntiVirus thing on your laptop". And since then, I had yet to see a single problem printing! McAfee was actually removed from laptops of lots of other people afterwards, my machine was just the lab rat in this story. And guess what, printing was never a problem since then - even with the regular MS updates that I received later.
Yep, this is a real story from an enterprise environment.
Windows is dead and Bill jumped that ship long time ago... FreeBSD!IOMMU + Core Isolation, Defender All-on with ALSR, FIPS mode, firewall, and full-updates packages from Microsoft that install as-is consistently; where's the problem with Windows?
(Pro, Pro for Workstations, Enterprise, and LTSC are better choices)To you. I can take an educated guess about a user's ability from the comments they make.
I don't have a judgement about that. If you want to just replicate the functionality you're used to on Windows, there are ways to do that on FreeBSD. For example, VLC is actually available on Windows, Linux, and all the BSDs, with the exact same feature set. Actually, a lot of nice apps are. But when you have the hardware you have, it helps to know what the limitations of your specs are. As an example, Blender is no longer the little cool program that can run on 512 MB of RAM any more. It needs a beefy GPU that costs at least $500, and at least 32 GB of RAM to run well.
I've used Windows since 3.11 (back in 1994, then I watched my school install Windows 95, ), Linux between 2002 and 2017 (when I discovered Mandrake), FreeBSD since 2017. And VirtualBox? It was released for the first time in 2007, I still had a Dell Inspiron laptop with 1 GB of RAM back then, and I still have my handwritten notes about Linux details from that time. And yeah, if you want anything remotely interesting to run inside a VirtualBox appliance at full speed these days, give that appliance at least 8 GB of RAM.
What in the world gives you the idea that you can be this rude to others on the Forums?
I can tell that kpedersen knows quite a bit about Windows in the enterprise environments. We do have debates about the wisdom of some moves that we witnessed from the decision-makers in the enterprise environments, and we have our differences on what we see as Good Practices, but come on, that's because we can tell, "Hey, the other guy actually knows SOMETHING and has a point"...If you actually bother to read the Wikipedia entry about Bill Gates, you'll discover that he was originally a Lisp programmer who understood the value of being open about letting others see the code and suggest improvements. In short, the guy himself actually understood Open Source pretty well.
This reminds me of a story from my last $JOB where someone did pretty much that. Well, it was basically a VM appliance that collected some research data. It was a non-standard setup, normally people would use Windows Enterprise Edition for such scenarios at my last $JOB. At one point, the VM stopped accepting the updates that Corporate IT was managing, simply because the VM did not have any more disk space inside. I had to track down the guy who originally set it up, and work with him to de-commission the VM. So yeah, you do see weird decision making from time to time.
Eh, I can prove some of my knowledge if questioned
zfs create zroot/poudriere (this creates a dataset which you can shrink, destroy, etc. if you don't want it). zfs set mountpoint=/usr/local/poudriere zroot/poudriere (this will ensure that poudriere doesn't create a poudriere folder on / after a jail is created alongside a /usr/local/poudriere folder)Degrees sadly are not so important anymore than they were before, although it doesn't hurt to have one.Eh, I can prove some of my knowledge if questioned
I've wondered if having notes like that could serve as some proof of experience for potential employers, but I'm not sure if it really outshines having a degree.
The problem is all the undocumented features that you don't want to be running. Attach a network traffic analyser to it, it will light up like a christmas tree. Also, you can't instruct a lot of Windows services to listen only on localhost (SMB, RDP, DNS). The only way to make sure it is not internet accessible is via firewall. This is simply incorrect as an approach.IOMMU + Core Isolation, Defender All-on with ALSR, FIPS mode, firewall, and full-updates packages from Microsoft that install as-is consistently; where's the problem with Windows?
For one, you can reach better performance with it and it uses less RAM. It is more of a stripped down OS (relatively...). You can uninstall Windows Defender, you can also domain join yourself (important for older developer licenses without connecting to Microsoft's servers (which you can't when isolated)).I'm not sure why someone would take Window Server and use that as a desktop OS, instead of Windows
Can that be done officially through GUI or with
Remove-Appx on Server?
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Well, libwacom is in ports: x11/libwacom. Try playing with that. YMMV.
140 GB RAM... now that is jaw-dropping... I barely have a net total of 124 GB of RAM in 5 different computers! (2 desktops with 32 GB RAM
Not so rare these days...
[<hidden_user>@<hidden_host> /]$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1582507284 599637764 7640424 754040 975229096 961652352
Swap: 65535996 663036 64872960
[<hidden_user>@<hidden_host> /]$CTH-470 seems fine with pen sensitivity https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/...-of-drawing-tablet-support.80419/#post-695785
I've been using a FreeBSD GUI since 1995. fvwm2, gnome, kde, xfce, lxde, back to fvwm2 (because the others are bloated), mwm, and finally CDE. (I used to use CDE on Tru64 and Solaris back in the day. I'm used to it.)
FreeBSD is also very good for emulation, especially game consoles like Sonys PS3, or Nintendos Switch.