I installed FreeBSD as my daily driver, and it was surprisingly good
… FreeBSD FreeBSD may not be the easiest desktop operating system to set up, but it's surprisingly robust once you iron the initial wrinkles out. See at FreeBSD
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FreeBSD 15 reminded me that boring operating systems are sometimes the whole point
… FreeBSD 15 is not exciting in the usual way, and that might be its strongest argument. FreeBSD Despite its initially simple appearance, FreeBSD is a capable operating system. See at FreeBSD
I stopped dismissing FreeBSD after trying out its modern distros
… I’m just patiently waiting for the day FreeBSD becomes as intuitive for everyday users as Linux. And considering the state of current FreeBSD distros, this dream might just become a reality soon. FreeBSD See at FreeBSD
I switched from Proxmox to its FreeBSD counterpart on my home server – here's how it went
… Sylve works the same way, except it doesn’t have a dedicated ISO yet and needs to be set up on a machine that’s already running FreeBSD. I won’t bore you with the details of how I installed FreeBSD, as it’s as simple as setting up any ol’ OS. …
4 cool operating systems that have nothing to do with Windows, macOS, or Linux
… Based on FreeBSD, TrueNAS Core used to be iXsystems’ main consumer-oriented NAS OS for years, before the company moved over to greener Linux pastures with Scale. …
4 operating systems that owe nothing to Windows, Linux, or Unix
… It does, however, implement POSIX in addition to networking drivers from FreeBSD through a compatibility layer. …
I switched from pfSense to OPNsense, and I'm happy with the upgrade
… On the VPN side, both FreeBSD flavors support OpenVPN, WireGuard, and IPsec, though pfSense requires the last one to be installed via plugins. …
After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distros
… These companies have built Kylin and Unity Operating System, respectively, with the former evolving from FreeBSD into its own OS, and the latter being based on Deepin, which itself is based on Debian. …
I used my spare PCIe slot for something boring, and it became my favorite PC upgrade
… If anything, I’d planned to use it for a makeshift FreeBSD server and that’s not even the most unhinged part of my home lab , but ended up removing it after running into issues with Marvell AQtion drivers on the OS. …
The best NAS distro is getting better at virtualization, but you shouldn't use it exclusively for that
… Sign in to your XDA account TrueNAS has been my go-to platform for storage servers ever since its Core days, and the Community Edition or Scale, as we used to call it back in the day has been a massive improvement over its FreeBSD predecessor. …