freebsd

I have this idea that I thought that Linuxulator is great when it runs a Linux program. But there exists programs which do not work with Linuxulator or are not developed with Linuxulator or FreeBSD in mind. So when such software exists, I want to use Linux, because the program is made for it...

Hello FreeBSD (BabaOS) community, I'm experiencing issues with a Bluetooth USB dongle on my FreeBSD system and need your help. System details: FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE releng/14.2-n269506-c8918d6c7412 GENERIC amd64 Hardware: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Vendor ID: 0x0a12...

Freebsd 14.2 quarterly has more up to date packages than Ubuntu 24.10 wlroots on Freebsd is version 18, on Ubuntu its version 17 dwl 0.7 requires wlroots 18, a lot of other wlroots wayland compositors require version 18 Freebsd is better if you want to use a wlroots wayland compositor...

Hey, everybody! Guys, I have a few questions. I've switched from linux to openbsd on my laptop for a few months now and I'm loving it. But I have questions about freebsd on my PC, which I also want to migrate from linux to freebsd. The only thing is that I really like the PoE game series. I...

I can't find an answer to my question anywhere so I decided to post on the forum, is my tp link archer t600u plus adapter supported under freebsd or not?????

I just installed linux-steam-utils on my main machine after trying it out in a VM yesterday but either it's no longer working or I did something wrong. This is all I get when running the steam command after following the steps I got after installing it and rebooting (Linux is already enabled)...

I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my PC (Switching from Arch Linux) and for some reason installing the drm-kmod package the handbook says to install I no longer even get a console when I reboot. Instead when I boot everything appears to be successful and then randomly my monitor goes black...

Hello, I have just upgraded my old HP nc6320 notebook from FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE to 14.2-RELEASE following the manual to the letter. The machine boots all the way to the login screen and I can log in remotely via ssh. Thing is I can't see that local login screen (terminal login), because the...

On the same machine (Lenovo ThinkCentre M600 Tiny Thin Client N3000 terminal), installing pure FreeBSD 14.1 (UFS fs) and Debian (EXT3 fs) distributions, the disk performance results are dramatically different. Result from dmesg (FreeBSD): ada0 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0 ada0...

Folks, I'm thinking of buying a new notebook computer (HP Pavilion Aero) which ships with AMD Ryzen 5-8640U processor. I was wondering if FreeBSD 14 or 15 supports it, especially WiFi and graphics card (Radeon). I'm new to FreeBSD, so any links for supported hardware and/or links to build...

We - a group of people involved with the FreeBSD community - would like to propose the formation of a new working group dedicated to improving the functionality and usage of FreeBSD on desktop and laptop environments. Objective The primary goal of this working group is to enhance the user...

Hello people, at the end of 2023 I started my journey of no return with FreeBSD because I got tired of Linux and wanted to experiment with this wonderful OS. I have already tried GhostBSD, NomadBSD... But the problem is that they are easy to install, I want someone to give me a guide to install...

Hi, I'm trying to duplicate a installer on a USB stick... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prior to FreeBSD 14.1 I have used this procedure in the past on older versions of FreeBSD without problems, for example to duplicate a MacOS installation...

Hi guys, so i have an OVH dedicated server, i installed Proxmox on it. I created 2 VMs, one freebsd VM as a firewall / NAT gateway and one Debian server in the same lan as the firewall with the FreeBSD as Gateway. On the FreeBSD VM there are 2 net cards, one for the WAN, one for the LAN. From...

Hi, how can i install swi-prolog on FreeBSD? i would like to use prolog with php.

Hello FreeBSD fellows. I have an authoritative nameserver (PowerDNS) server running as: ns1.mydomain.com, hosting the DNS records of my domains, and communicating with my secondary/slave nameserver, for DNS record changes&updates. I've implemented PF, however I'm not really sure if I managed to...

Hello. I'm preparing to manage few VMs under FreeBSD bhyve, and focusing on implementing a good set of PF rules on the main host machine. I wanted to ask for your opinions, is it wise to have a rule like; pass in/out quick on vm-publicswitch all (vm-publicswitch containing all the IP ranges...

Greetings friends... I am adjusting the Conky configuration file and I have it almost ready, but I don't know how to put the name of the network card so that its name is automatically selected. Thanks in advance for your help! This is the specific part of the problem: ${if_up re0}\...

Hello. I'm looking to install FreeBSD (Hopefully with KDE) onto my Thinkpad X1Carbon Gen 6. (Samsung 980 SSD/16 GB ram) I'm mostly familiar with linux in general and have tried different distros. I currently run Arch (With KDE and btrfs / not encrypted) and it definitely runs great on my laptop...

Will users have to install ports tree while installing FreeBSD? Because portsnap was deprecated