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So, I have a little problem with @BastilleBSD
I use it quite successfully, but I have a new notebook with wlan0 and em0, so I put a lagg0 with failover on it.
Now I try to create a jail with vnet, but I do not get any dhcp response. I tried randomizing the ether address on the interface, but to no avail.Has anybody had the same problem and maybe a solution for me?
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I'm dismayed that the three systems and communities I love the most, Debian, FreeBSD, and Slackware, are falling into the trap we might call "Uncanny Valley as a Service".
Debian has their pro-slop policy now, and FreeBSD and Slackware both have influential developers who are pro-slop. FreeBSD is shooting for a "balanced" policy - but how do you balance the copyright and license violations, the cognitive harm, and the climate impact against a dubious "convenience?" And I don't expect Slackware will say anything formal.
I'm hoping I can rekindle my fondness for NetBSD, and I've probably got Gentoo in my future for desktops. I know I can live with NetBSD and if I set up a local binary build server I can minimize the energy cost of having to compile everything for Gentoo. (Maybe if I figure out the implications of the USE flags from default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/gnome that'll end up being reasonable. I'm not a G.N.O.M.E. user. See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_binhost/Available_packages_and_configurations )
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We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡
Big thank you to our platinum sponsor: Entersekt
https://www.entersekt.com/If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
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Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career.
On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another.
Different servers, different workloads, one thing in common: the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre.Then came the news: SBG2 was on fire.
I had 142 servers there.
The mission for the night was simple to state: bring the critical services back before 8, then recover everything else as quickly as possible.
This talk is about what happened next. The things that worked, the architectural choices that saved us, and especially the ones that failed when we needed them most.
And it's also the story of why that night changed the way I design infrastructure, and why BSD systems became such an important part of it.
The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically.
📅 Saturday 12 September, 11:15
📍 EuroBSDCon 2026, D.0.02#BSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon #Sysadmin #Infrastructure #RunBSD #NetBSD #OwnYourData #Linux #DisasterRecovery
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Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career.
On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another.
Different servers, different workloads, one thing in common: the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre.Then came the news: SBG2 was on fire.
I had 142 servers there.
The mission for the night was simple to state: bring the critical services back before 8, then recover everything else as quickly as possible.
This talk is about what happened next. The things that worked, the architectural choices that saved us, and especially the ones that failed when we needed them most.
And it's also the story of why that night changed the way I design infrastructure, and why BSD systems became such an important part of it.
The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically.
📅 Saturday 12 September, 11:15
📍 EuroBSDCon 2026, D.0.02#BSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon #Sysadmin #Infrastructure #RunBSD #NetBSD #OwnYourData #Linux #DisasterRecovery
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Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career.
On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another.
Different servers, different workloads, one thing in common: the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre.Then came the news: SBG2 was on fire.
I had 142 servers there.
The mission for the night was simple to state: bring the critical services back before 8, then recover everything else as quickly as possible.
This talk is about what happened next. The things that worked, the architectural choices that saved us, and especially the ones that failed when we needed them most.
And it's also the story of why that night changed the way I design infrastructure, and why BSD systems became such an important part of it.
The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically.
📅 Saturday 12 September, 11:15
📍 EuroBSDCon 2026, D.0.02#BSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon #Sysadmin #Infrastructure #RunBSD #NetBSD #OwnYourData #Linux #DisasterRecovery
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Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career.
On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another.
Different servers, different workloads, one thing in common: the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre.Then came the news: SBG2 was on fire.
I had 142 servers there.
The mission for the night was simple to state: bring the critical services back before 8, then recover everything else as quickly as possible.
This talk is about what happened next. The things that worked, the architectural choices that saved us, and especially the ones that failed when we needed them most.
And it's also the story of why that night changed the way I design infrastructure, and why BSD systems became such an important part of it.
The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically.
📅 Saturday 12 September, 11:15
📍 EuroBSDCon 2026, D.0.02#BSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon #Sysadmin #Infrastructure #RunBSD #NetBSD #OwnYourData #Linux #DisasterRecovery
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Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career.
On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another.
Different servers, different workloads, one thing in common: the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre.Then came the news: SBG2 was on fire.
I had 142 servers there.
The mission for the night was simple to state: bring the critical services back before 8, then recover everything else as quickly as possible.
This talk is about what happened next. The things that worked, the architectural choices that saved us, and especially the ones that failed when we needed them most.
And it's also the story of why that night changed the way I design infrastructure, and why BSD systems became such an important part of it.
The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically.
📅 Saturday 12 September, 11:15
📍 EuroBSDCon 2026, D.0.02#BSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon #Sysadmin #Infrastructure #RunBSD #NetBSD #OwnYourData #Linux #DisasterRecovery
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Cool that people are trying NetBSD and others in the family.
NetBSD always existed, it wasn't an invisible system. The adaptation can be a bit hard, but It's a good community.
But unlike Linux, we don't have a massive crowd or "big tech money" to fix bugs, add features and stuff like that. With new users joining, I hope it brings actual help, not just because your toxic relationship with Linux is over. -
Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15 – Liam Proven | The Register
<https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/09/02/offshoots-of-cancelled-truenas-core-upgrade-to-freebsd-15/5293725> @lproven
"… FreeBSD has a strong reputation as a stable server OS, and integrates highly reliable ZFS filesystem right into its kernel. The snag is that Linux is rather more widespread, meaning more people know their way around a Linux box – but Linux knowledge doesn’t transfer well over to FreeBSD.
The Reg FOSS desk just found out about two different new dedicated NAS OS based on FreeBSD – and saliently, based on the current FreeBSD 15 codebase, …"https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1w7fzj8/offshoots_of_cancelled_truenas_core_upgrade_to/ ― for Liam's article
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1vy8ahl/bsdnas/ ― for BSDnas
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1vy8ani/freecore/ ― for FreeCORE
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More #NetBSD thoughts:
I'm an #i3wm / #sway or #KDE #Plasma guy. I tried #OpenBSD's default wm for about a minute, but it was just too jarring for me. I also used #cwm for a while, and it's actually nicely configurable, but I eventually reverted to i3 on OpenBSD. I haven't tried Sway yet, but #Wayland's supposedly working in "Fish Linux" now. ;)
But #ctwm? Look, it's pretty ancient, and it's not a totally perfect fit for my worfklow, but I'm actually kinda diggin' it!
It's also probably the most attractive default GUI of any of the BSDs, considering that obsd gives you a pretty loud bright red or bright blue titlebar motif-looking thing (not knocking motif, just the primary color choice), and #FreeBSD gives you (checks notes) no GUI by default. XD
ctwm isn't quite as flexible as i3/sway, but it's just configurable enough to keep me coming back and tinkering away at it. The way the warpring function (alt+tab, in other words) works is pretty obtuse (only moving forward or backward in the window list, never re-ordering based on recency), but once I learned how to exclude windows (X11 classes or window titles) from the warpring, it became a ton more usable.
I also figured out how to enable active titlebar highlight (it drives me nuts when that's disabled or very subtle, how do you even not understand that basic tenet of usability?) and even how to assign an xpm image to the titlebar so it looks pretty.
Fun stuff!
I should post another screenshot. ;)
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More #NetBSD thoughts:
I'm an #i3wm / #sway or #KDE #Plasma guy. I tried #OpenBSD's default wm for about a minute, but it was just too jarring for me. I also used #cwm for a while, and it's actually nicely configurable, but I eventually reverted to i3 on OpenBSD. I haven't tried Sway yet, but #Wayland's supposedly working in "Fish Linux" now. ;)
But #ctwm? Look, it's pretty ancient, and it's not a totally perfect fit for my worfklow, but I'm actually kinda diggin' it!
It's also probably the most attractive default GUI of any of the BSDs, considering that obsd gives you a pretty loud bright red or bright blue titlebar motif-looking thing (not knocking motif, just the primary color choice), and #FreeBSD gives you (checks notes) no GUI by default. XD
ctwm isn't quite as flexible as i3/sway, but it's just configurable enough to keep me coming back and tinkering away at it. The way the warpring function (alt+tab, in other words) works is pretty obtuse (only moving forward or backward in the window list, never re-ordering based on recency), but once I learned how to exclude windows (X11 classes or window titles) from the warpring, it became a ton more usable.
I also figured out how to enable active titlebar highlight (it drives me nuts when that's disabled or very subtle, how do you even not understand that basic tenet of usability?) and even how to assign an xpm image to the titlebar so it looks pretty.
Fun stuff!
I should post another screenshot. ;)
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More #NetBSD thoughts:
I'm an #i3wm / #sway or #KDE #Plasma guy. I tried #OpenBSD's default wm for about a minute, but it was just too jarring for me. I also used #cwm for a while, and it's actually nicely configurable, but I eventually reverted to i3 on OpenBSD. I haven't tried Sway yet, but #Wayland's supposedly working in "Fish Linux" now. ;)
But #ctwm? Look, it's pretty ancient, and it's not a totally perfect fit for my worfklow, but I'm actually kinda diggin' it!
It's also probably the most attractive default GUI of any of the BSDs, considering that obsd gives you a pretty loud bright red or bright blue titlebar motif-looking thing (not knocking motif, just the primary color choice), and #FreeBSD gives you (checks notes) no GUI by default. XD
ctwm isn't quite as flexible as i3/sway, but it's just configurable enough to keep me coming back and tinkering away at it. The way the warpring function (alt+tab, in other words) works is pretty obtuse (only moving forward or backward in the window list, never re-ordering based on recency), but once I learned how to exclude windows (X11 classes or window titles) from the warpring, it became a ton more usable.
I also figured out how to enable active titlebar highlight (it drives me nuts when that's disabled or very subtle, how do you even not understand that basic tenet of usability?) and even how to assign an xpm image to the titlebar so it looks pretty.
Fun stuff!
I should post another screenshot. ;)
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More #NetBSD thoughts:
I'm an #i3wm / #sway or #KDE #Plasma guy. I tried #OpenBSD's default wm for about a minute, but it was just too jarring for me. I also used #cwm for a while, and it's actually nicely configurable, but I eventually reverted to i3 on OpenBSD. I haven't tried Sway yet, but #Wayland's supposedly working in "Fish Linux" now. ;)
But #ctwm? Look, it's pretty ancient, and it's not a totally perfect fit for my worfklow, but I'm actually kinda diggin' it!
It's also probably the most attractive default GUI of any of the BSDs, considering that obsd gives you a pretty loud bright red or bright blue titlebar motif-looking thing (not knocking motif, just the primary color choice), and #FreeBSD gives you (checks notes) no GUI by default. XD
ctwm isn't quite as flexible as i3/sway, but it's just configurable enough to keep me coming back and tinkering away at it. The way the warpring function (alt+tab, in other words) works is pretty obtuse (only moving forward or backward in the window list, never re-ordering based on recency), but once I learned how to exclude windows (X11 classes or window titles) from the warpring, it became a ton more usable.
I also figured out how to enable active titlebar highlight (it drives me nuts when that's disabled or very subtle, how do you even not understand that basic tenet of usability?) and even how to assign an xpm image to the titlebar so it looks pretty.
Fun stuff!
I should post another screenshot. ;)
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More #NetBSD thoughts:
I'm an #i3wm / #sway or #KDE #Plasma guy. I tried #OpenBSD's default wm for about a minute, but it was just too jarring for me. I also used #cwm for a while, and it's actually nicely configurable, but I eventually reverted to i3 on OpenBSD. I haven't tried Sway yet, but #Wayland's supposedly working in "Fish Linux" now. ;)
But #ctwm? Look, it's pretty ancient, and it's not a totally perfect fit for my worfklow, but I'm actually kinda diggin' it!
It's also probably the most attractive default GUI of any of the BSDs, considering that obsd gives you a pretty loud bright red or bright blue titlebar motif-looking thing (not knocking motif, just the primary color choice), and #FreeBSD gives you (checks notes) no GUI by default. XD
ctwm isn't quite as flexible as i3/sway, but it's just configurable enough to keep me coming back and tinkering away at it. The way the warpring function (alt+tab, in other words) works is pretty obtuse (only moving forward or backward in the window list, never re-ordering based on recency), but once I learned how to exclude windows (X11 classes or window titles) from the warpring, it became a ton more usable.
I also figured out how to enable active titlebar highlight (it drives me nuts when that's disabled or very subtle, how do you even not understand that basic tenet of usability?) and even how to assign an xpm image to the titlebar so it looks pretty.
Fun stuff!
I should post another screenshot. ;)
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Luanti in esecuzione su GhostBSD 25 (con X11 / Xlibre).
Il gameplay è davvero fluido che non sfigura per nulla davanti al port Linux e Win.
Voxelibre è stato aggiornato in queste settimane e la nuova versione è più pesante della precedente, perciò dovrò fare di nuovo un'altra registrazione sotto Linux più in avanti.https://peertube.uno/w/3qQTfgCMMxKwfDUzJUvQe7
#bsd #freebsd #ghostbsd #luanti #pcgaming #pcgame #pcgames #xlibre #videogioco #videogiochi #voxelibre #minecraft
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We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡
Big thank you to our platinum sponsor: OPNsense
https://opnsense.org/If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
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We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡
Big thank you to our platinum sponsor: OPNsense
https://opnsense.org/If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
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We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡
Big thank you to our platinum sponsor: OPNsense
https://opnsense.org/If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
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We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡
Big thank you to our platinum sponsor: OPNsense
https://opnsense.org/If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
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We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡
Big thank you to our platinum sponsor: OPNsense
https://opnsense.org/If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
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The bazaar hosts a babble of languages. Learn to speak to all the merchants so you can haggle for the packages you desire. Perhaps even antiquities from the #Solaris shop, from a time before the oceans drowned Atlantis. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/package-management.html?s=mc
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The bazaar hosts a babble of languages. Learn to speak to all the merchants so you can haggle for the packages you desire. Perhaps even antiquities from the #Solaris shop, from a time before the oceans drowned Atlantis. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/package-management.html?s=mc
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The bazaar hosts a babble of languages. Learn to speak to all the merchants so you can haggle for the packages you desire. Perhaps even antiquities from the #Solaris shop, from a time before the oceans drowned Atlantis. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/package-management.html?s=mc
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The bazaar hosts a babble of languages. Learn to speak to all the merchants so you can haggle for the packages you desire. Perhaps even antiquities from the #Solaris shop, from a time before the oceans drowned Atlantis. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/package-management.html?s=mc
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The bazaar hosts a babble of languages. Learn to speak to all the merchants so you can haggle for the packages you desire. Perhaps even antiquities from the #Solaris shop, from a time before the oceans drowned Atlantis. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/package-management.html?s=mc
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Here Luanti running under GhostBSD.
Good performance, very smooth.
Voxelibre had a big update with the last release that weight more than the one I used for record the performance of Xlibre on Devuan, I need to remake the "test" soon or later. -
Here Luanti running under GhostBSD.
Good performance, very smooth.
Voxelibre had a big update with the last release that weight more than the one I used for record the performance of Xlibre on Devuan, I need to remake the "test" soon or later. -
Here Luanti running under GhostBSD.
Good performance, very smooth.
Voxelibre had a big update with the last release that weight more than the one I used for record the performance of Xlibre on Devuan, I need to remake the "test" soon or later. -
Here Luanti running under GhostBSD.
Good performance, very smooth.
Voxelibre had a big update with the last release that weight more than the one I used for record the performance of Xlibre on Devuan, I need to remake the "test" soon or later. -
Luanti + Voxelibre running under GhostBSD + Xlibre
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Luanti + Voxelibre running under GhostBSD + Xlibre
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Luanti + Voxelibre running under GhostBSD + Xlibre
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Comparison between Linux and BSD running Stellaris.
There is no real difference putting two screenshot side at side, except that when you watch the pictures on GhostBSD the lens flare halo is seen better than on Debian.
And the camera pan is much more fluid on BSD.You are not going to see differences if you want move for play on FreeBSD, beside better colors I think (at least on my screen).
Linux left, GhostBSD right.
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Comparison between Linux and BSD running Stellaris.
There is no real difference putting two screenshot side at side, except that when you watch the pictures on GhostBSD the lens flare halo is seen better than on Debian.
And the camera pan is much more fluid on BSD.You are not going to see differences if you want move for play on FreeBSD, beside better colors I think (at least on my screen).
Linux left, GhostBSD right.
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Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15
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Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15
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Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15
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Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15
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Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15
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Question: how does NetBSD differ from FreeBSD? Are both forbidding slop code?
I'm thinking of switching from Debian to BSD, but am unsure which one to start doing serious homework on first.
It will need a modern browser like Firefox (or a fork), office suite, GIMP, and VLC. Also need good printer support.
I don't game or have to worry about Nvidia driver issues.
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Question: how does NetBSD differ from FreeBSD? Are both forbidding slop code?
I'm thinking of switching from Debian to BSD, but am unsure which one to start doing serious homework on first.
It will need a modern browser like Firefox (or a fork), office suite, GIMP, and VLC. Also need good printer support.
I don't game or have to worry about Nvidia driver issues.
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Question: how does NetBSD differ from FreeBSD? Are both forbidding slop code?
I'm thinking of switching from Debian to BSD, but am unsure which one to start doing serious homework on first.
It will need a modern browser like Firefox (or a fork), office suite, GIMP, and VLC. Also need good printer support.
I don't game or have to worry about Nvidia driver issues.
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Question: how does NetBSD differ from FreeBSD? Are both forbidding slop code?
I'm thinking of switching from Debian to BSD, but am unsure which one to start doing serious homework on first.
It will need a modern browser like Firefox (or a fork), office suite, GIMP, and VLC. Also need good printer support.
I don't game or have to worry about Nvidia driver issues.
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Soon I want to do probe of me PCs on NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Consider doing a probe of your computer. It helps other users know if your laptop works fine with BSD or not. Or what works and what does not.
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Soon I want to do probe of me PCs on NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Consider doing a probe of your computer. It helps other users know if your laptop works fine with BSD or not. Or what works and what does not.
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Soon I want to do probe of me PCs on NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Consider doing a probe of your computer. It helps other users know if your laptop works fine with BSD or not. Or what works and what does not.
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Soon I want to do probe of me PCs on NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Consider doing a probe of your computer. It helps other users know if your laptop works fine with BSD or not. Or what works and what does not.
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Soon I want to do probe of me PCs on NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Consider doing a probe of your computer. It helps other users know if your laptop works fine with BSD or not. Or what works and what does not.