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

You also have Ardour, LMMS and Audacity that work perfectly on FreeBSD and these are decent DAWs.
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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...
 
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.
 
ikbendeman said:
Who's new to FreeBSD? Did you migrate from another OS and what was your reason?
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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.
 
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!
 
Hai, i am new to FreeBSD and id like to use it soon, i am new to forums in general... would like to ask some questions that are not defined in the Rules btw. (any mod who has time and sees this)
I hope i learn about FreeBSD much and how to use a Forum, hehe.
 
lukasf said:
i am new to FreeBSD
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Welcome to a wonderful new world of computing and gaining knowledge.

lukasf said:
i am new to forums in general... would like to ask some questions that are not defined in the Rules btw.
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There's a long standing set of unwritten rules; called "netiquette". Most of us old farts, that have been on the internet longer than you've been alive, tend to follow those. One of those "rules" is that you don't ask to ask a question, you simply ask your question. With regards to "our" specific forum rules, those mainly deal with things we do not want. So if it's not mentioned in the rules it's probably ok, but we do sort of require the question to directly, or indirectly, be applicable to FreeBSD. General technology questions like "how does a webserver work" would be fine, "how do I set up a webserver on Debian/Ubuntu/Whatever" is not unless you're asking on how to set up that webserver on FreeBSD specifically. Does that clear things up a bit?
 
SirDice said:
Welcome to a wonderful new world of computing and gaining knowledge.


There's a long standing set of unwritten rules; called "netiquette". Most of us old farts, that have been on the internet longer than you've been alive, tend to follow those. One of those "rules" is that you don't ask to ask a question, you simply ask your question. With regards to "our" specific forum rules, those mainly deal with things we do not want. So if it's not mentioned in the rules it's probably ok, but we do sort of require the question to directly, or indirectly, be applicable to FreeBSD. General technology questions like "how does a webserver work" would be fine, "how do I set up a webserver on Debian/Ubuntu/Whatever" is not unless you're asking on how to set up that webserver on FreeBSD specifically. Does that clear things up a bit?
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Thank you, it does. I have a specific question in mind regarding my potential profile picture. It has a Prideflag in it and i thought i make sure that its not prohibted since its offtopic for this forum.
I am kinda sure that its not a problem but you know, i better ask before i offend anyone
 
I am 75% a bum on disability benefits and 25% a venture capitalist. Almost a decade ago I intended to install OpenBSD on this machine, but
it did not have driver support enough for me to get a dmesg from the installer so lazy as I was I installed FreeBSD instead.
I use FreeBSD as a desktop when I need a good terminal, and I use it on a hobby level. I have Windows 11 on this desktop too.
I am not the level to assess one operating systems merits over another, but FreeBSD has a cool logo and is hobbyist friendly.
I made half the port of Broadcast Using This Tool. Another thing I like about FreeBSD is that comes as an operating system and
not a distro, so that one has a chance to figure out what is installed or not. This makes it easier to find support.
 
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