Introduce yourself, tell us who you are and why you chose FreeBSD

[audioeric]

You also have Ardour, LMMS and Audacity that work perfectly on FreeBSD and these are decent DAWs.

Ardour works perfectly?? But Paul Davis said that OSS is garbage and he would never accept any related patches. He's probably busy working out the endless bugs his 4 layer audio bean dip requires to run on Linux these days...

 

[DHOC_TAZH]

I'm a long time Linux and Windows user. Occasionally come into contact with a MacOS setup.

I have used FreeBSD in some past IT work. I currently don't use it at the office, but have seen some projects running on it which rekindled my interest in the OS.

I recently installed GhostBSD on two PCs, and it works out of the box in one of them. I am hoping to gain 3d acceleration in the newer PC, so I can run a few 3d games, apps and viewers that have native FreeBSD builds. One of them is a third party Second Life viewer called Megapahit.

In any case, I hope to learn more about the inner workings of FreeBSD. I do enjoy tinkering under the hood with the OSs, so I am just as likely to mess with Windows and Linux when something doesn't function well for me.

 

[ppavel]

Who's new to FreeBSD? Did you migrate from another OS and what was your reason?

Ok, the illusion of control. My first OS (after CP/M and QNX2/4) was FreeBSD.

I made quite a few things with picoBSD and FreeBSD is an OS of choice for me in 2025 when I want the whole thing working.

BTW, please bring GraalJIT JVMs. I'm in.

 

[thedaemon]

I just made a log entry for this!

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thedaemons.space

 

[benito97]

Hello, everyone!

I've recently started using Linux (again), but I've also taken up C and x86 assembly. Upon reaching the topic of Operating Systems, I became fascinated with UNIX and it's history, which led me here.

I bought a used ThinkPad x260 and installed FreeBSD on it and got XFCE running. Now I'm writing this, which means it's working fine!

My long-term goal is to eventually be able to contribute to the project somehow, so I thought that installing and using the system would be a good start!

 

[RetroComputingCollector]

Does suspend/resume work?

 

[benito97]

Does suspend/resume work?

I'm not sure if that's what you mean, but I clicked on the Suspend button in X. Then, the screen turned black, and the Power LED started to blink. After pressing the power button, it resumed. Does that mean it works, or should I try it from text mode like here?

 

[RetroComputingCollector]

If it works in X, then it will likely work in text mode! I'm lucky for it to work on one of my computers! On some, the screen doesn't turn on after resuming!