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Hi All, I have been facing a strange problem on AWS, where I created a large FreeBSD NFS server, with the below configuration. My throughput to writing a file is 600-800 Mbps and reading files are much higher. I have no issues with throughput, but the problem is with while accessing a folder...

Note: this is a somewhat opinionated writing, but I can back up all my statements with evidence (and I will). I also want to point out that my post isn't necessarily meant to talk down on Linux (hence not mentioning it in the topic), but after seeing all this I did feel like outing a critical...

Hey all. Sorry that my first post is basically a "somebody throw me a line" post...but here goes! :-) I'm currently running 3 OS's (2x linux distributions, 1x windows os) on my laptop. I also connect a 1TB external HD to it. On this External HD, I want to run FreeBSD and likely a couple linux...

Hello everyone. I would like to know why would FreeBSD be a better choice than Linux. I currently have Linux (Debian). So I would like to know what are the benefits of using FreeBSD as a desktop over Linux. The things I do pretty much are programming and digital art(when I feel like it), I don't...

I've install linux-oracle-jdk, and i find i can run "java -version" with root user, but with other user, "java -version" command has no reposonse. Could anyone tell me what's wrong with it?

Looks like Redhat have stopped any further updates to BTRFS and will be removing it in the next major version. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7.4_Release_Notes-Deprecated_Functionality.html Not that...

Hello, I am coming from Arch Linux and I am trying to find the correct pkg flag to replicate the pacman -S --asdeps package_name behavior. Context on what this command is and what am I trying to achieve from the pacman wiki: Translating from Arch Linux to FreeBSD: opphan packages in Arch are...

I have a two questions about the status and future of hardware support (most commonly video cards and wireless) on FreeBSD. These are general questions and I felt they probably belonged here not in a sub-category. 1- Does Linux have better access/availability of drivers compared to FreeBSD? I...

I have installed the port linux-rtcw and copied the .pak files. But it fails to launch with the following errors: noob@freebsd-pc:~/Downloads/Return to Castle Wolfenstein % wolf ./wolf: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file...

I have been pondering for a while now which desktop environment FreeBSD users consider the best choice for today and in the future. It looks as though desktop environments created primarily for Linux such as Gnome and KDE may become more difficult, if not impossible to keep up to date for...

Hello everyone :) I'm a fresh user of FreeBSD from Windows. I installed the version 10.3 on my new computer by livecd which I burnt. I need to install a driver for my network card (Qualcomm Atheros - QCA6174), but this is ath10k and the FreeBSD port is not ready actualy. Can I install...

Hi everyone, I am new, I am finally taking the plunge and going to try FreeBSD (upon the recommendation of a telecom IT guy I know.) I want to do a tri-boot setup... Windows 10 + Linux (which has been my primary OS since '09) + FreeBSD. My question is is there a particular order that I...

I am dual-booting Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) and FreeBSD on the same laptop. I decided to use Grub2 (explanation below). Since Linux boots, I am doing this from Linux. The kernel appears to boot and scrolls through the kernel messages, but then ends with the following message: Mountroot: waiting for...

Hi All, I need to install VMware-Horizont-Client on my freebsd, I've downloaded the linux version from here: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=VIEWCLIENTS_LINUX_35_64&productId=421&rPId=9425 But really I don't know if there is a way to run and install it.... I have the...

Hello! After some testing I've found out that my FreeBSD sshd daemon takes more CPU time than other OS (11% vs 6%). The same usage for 20Mb/s and for 90Mb/s. It doesn't matter from where I start SSH session. Please look at the following information. #1 OS: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p3 #2 Other...

Hello. I am a C/C++ Python and Java developer at the Elettra Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Trieste, Italy. For the control system we use and produce open source software, and we develop under linux. I have been a fan of FreeBSD since my laurea degree thesis back in 2004. To cope with work...

BBR Article: https://lwn.net/Articles/701165/ linux 4.9 patch: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/671069/ FreeBSD should also be improved.

Hi, sorry for the ignorance, it is the first time that I install FreeBSD. I wondered if FreeBSD automatically installs a boot loader, because I want to make a dual boot with Gentoo, Gentoo grub maintaining and adding the voice FreeBSD (of course I will use UFS partitions compatibility grub), thanks.

we are running some jails in FreeBSD 10 and the decision has been made to decommission the FreeBSD server and migrate all the jails to Linux environment Red Hat 6 or 7. Is there a straight forward way of migrating BSD jails to linux -- as containers that can be run via docker or any other way...

I've got a large raidz2 pool created under ZFS On Linux that I'd like to import to FreeBSD. I've been told that it is possible as long as the enabled options from ZOL are available under FreeBSD. I don't really know what is available though, and I couldn't find anything concise enough to...