FreeBSD 14.0

The FreeBSD team has released their 14.0 version of FreeBSD just in time for their 30th anniversary!
All in all its a good release, they are really trying to make things easier to install, and it may take them a couple of tries to work out some of the bugs in the release. However I was able to work around them all except for one, when in a virtual machine it won't disengage the mouse and keyboard from the view window. I need to check to see what is conflicting with the key sequence and hopefully that will resolve the issue. All-in-All a very nice distribution of one of my favorite first time open source operating systems I ever used.

00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Overview of FreeBSD
04:02 - What is FreeBSD?
04:47 - What's New in 14.0
08:02 - Requirements
08:18 - Desktop Environments
08:55 - FreeBSD Features
11:12 - UEFI Support
11:54 - Installing FreeBSD 14.0

Hardware
AMD Rysen Machine (Currently Unplugged)
Odroid N2+
Raspberry Pi 4

Network

Video Equipment
Panasonic GH4 Camera

Audio Equipment

Software
Rogue Amoeba Audio Hijack 3
Rogue Ameoba Loopback

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[alexxx]

I like FreeBSD. It's a well designed and architected system. Unlike what feels like a messy hodgepodge of various tools and trinkets such as Linux ecosystem. Don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing on Linux, as there are some benefits in its crowd sourced development approach. But I feel that if you want a serious, reasonable, stable, well organized system FreeBSD is better.

[John]

18 tasks running? FreeBSD just became a valid option

[jcameron]

I really enjoy you YT channel BTW. I really like your non biased point of view. Also there is not much out there on BSD except maybe for Robonuggie.

[repairstudio]

I run the older BSD and it's pretty great with a good group of users that are helpful as the setup can be somewhat cumbersome at first. Great Video DJWares! It good to see Free BSD to get some cool recognition amongst the zoo of linix distros! ❤🎉

[wantgoodvibes]

Thanks for the great look at this, :) FreeBSD is one of the systems I used a lot during the late 90's and into the late 2000's, (along with the other opensource BSD's(specifically Open and Net), there were a few more along with the forks from the 4.4 and 5.3 changes, :) don't quote my version numbers please, lol been a while, hehe

[michaelheimbrand]

Thank´s for giving a BSD some much deserved attention. I think most Linux users don´t even know it exists. And we need to change that. It´s a good alternative to Linux for 99% of the users. I once heard that "Linux is for people who hates Windows, BSD is for people who love UNIX". Anyway, thanks for a great video as always.

[Lightbeerer]

Thank you for covering this release! FreeBSD is an awesome OS, I just wish it had better support for newer laptops. The new iwlwifi driver is a step in the right direction. But there are still issues with suspend/resume, power management and wifi on many models.

[HaydenLikeHey]

This was a really good one. Haven't ever seen any sort of BSD in action before. Really cool!

[clarity]

FreeBSD rules. Glad to see the iwlwifi driver - it's what my motherboard's integrated wifi chip uses.

[nadtz]

Been running FBSD since 3.5 and still running it as one of my VM's and TrueNAS core for my storage server. Solid overview, once you get used to the installer it's a quick and painless install and ports/pkg is as well. Support for 1024 cores might seem crazy but ARM can do 384 in a dual socket system so not as crazy as it seems.

[godnyx]

When FreeBSD gets better support for Wayland and things start to "just work" more, Linux sysadmins and hardcore users will have a great alternative!

Of course, I'm not saying FreeBSD is not already great, don't want to start a "war". All I'm saying is that at this point, a lot of things needs tweaking and to spend time on them so for a lot of people, there is no point to jump.

[VellichorGlim]

Interesting tidbit of info @ 5:28. Im going to dig a bit deeper into GPU pass through. I rely on it in Linux

10:34 TiL Linux compatibility layer? Gosh, I think I gotta spin up a BSD VM and learn a lot more!

[EvilDaveCanada]

Does FreeBSD work with Ksh? I was trained in UNIX at AT&T Bell Labs in Denver way back in the late 80s. Playing with this would bring back some fond memories as the first UNIX system rhat I was the Administrator for was a pre V.4.0 that ran a customized merging of both AT&T UNIX & BSD UNIX. Unless you read the man files included, you were never sure if a command was AT&T or BSD. They even had front ends to each command's parameters to match either AT&T or BSD. The funny thing is is that I didn't find the flag to activate the Front Ends until I had been creating sh scripts for more then two(2) years so I never used it
Unfortunately, for my UNIX usage anyway, I had to switch to MS Windows when I started writing custom software. As my target clients were Law Offices & manufacturers of clothing & vertical blinds (what a combo). My accounting software really only needed the GUI modified for each client and I never had to change the GUI for my manufacturing software.

[ChrisXPZ]

DJ Ware on the mic!
Drop that hard bsd!

[briceperdue]

Fucking love how you handle your videos

[dezmondwhitney]

A Great review of a Great OS, Thank You.

[krassiem]

Many thanks for the presentation on FreeBSD.
I think it uses Gpt disk partitioning approach

[andersjjensen]

4:40 "I am held accountable..[sic].. I have to give them back" No. No. And no. You do NOT have to give changes back. You have to pass them along to anyone you distribute binaries, of you modified version, to. You do not have to contact the official maintainers in any capacity. And if you never distribute your changes [outside of your organization] you're not required to lift a god damn finger.

This is a VITAL distinction. In BSD freedom it's the software itself that is free. In GNU freedom it's the user who is free, and the GNU license prohibits you from taking that freedom away from others if you redistribute the software . But you're ONLY bound by the license if you distribute binaries of the modified software. And you're only obligated towards the one(s) you distribute it to. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And lastly: ZFS is under the CDDL license which is pretty much identical to GPL, except incompatible, so FreeBSD is actually not 100% "free" according to their own definition.

[patriot]

I used to run security applications in 2000s on the Free BSD platform until CentOS came along. Free BSD was extremely stable and could be locked down pretty nicely from Security perspective.

[andrewjames]

Wish theyd come out with a package manager like apt or yum which can seamlessly upgrade everything from one release to the next