A Quick Installation Of FreeBSD 13.0

FreeBSD just released version 13.0, which is the first release of the stable/13 branch. Since it's a major release and I don't cover FreeBSD much, I thought it appropriate that I take a look at this release. So I'm going to run though a quick base installation and I might install Xorg and a desktop environment.

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[lwy]

Hey dt; i installed freebsd and installed xorg, xfce and slim. Execute slim and get out error
Hot to do i solve it?
My freebsd not run xfce desktop

[peachestv]

the strong and complicated password bit is the best part of this channel, really

[UnspankableGoose]

Debian: dpkg/apt
RHEL: dnf/yum
Arch: pacman
FreeBSD: p k g
such creative

[caleb.]

"create a strong and complicated password"
* taps one key and hit enter *

[tedbybolf]

'What you wanna do is the stable branch'
-Arch user

[little-wytch]

I love FreeBSD but I do my installs of it a bit differently. I don't bother to add a user during install. After a fresh install, I log in as root and do the initial fetch of pkg and do the system update as it recommends and then install sudo and/or doas, micro (I hate vim and nano) xorg, xfce (as a backup) i3, login manager, terminal, bash and/or zsh, and THEN after all that's installed, the last thing I do as root is to add a user (that way I don't have to bother with modifying the user for other groups/shell later, I can do it all in one shot) then I do a reboot and can set the rest of the system up at my leisure. I find doing it this way makes the process smoother and easier in general. NOTE: For anyone that wants to try gaming on FreeBSD, make sure when you add the steam user you do NOT add that user to the wheel group.

[censoredterminalautism]

I'm using it. Doing everything slowly, though, because the documentation is part of the appeal, so I'm reading ALL OF IT.

[littlepeon]

BSD is the ONLY O.S. I would run and NEVER worry about updating it. Everything is secure and stable from day one. Even the Kernel only needs to be updated to add features...not patch holes! Yes, the BSD license is TOTALLY different from the GPL- you can take from BSD and commercially distribute as YOU see fit... Just acknowledge who wrote the code 1st .

[AnalyticMinded]

About a month or so ago, I installed FreeBSD on my old Intel Atom EeePC with i3. That little netbook is 32-bit, so I can't really install much of Linux; that's why I went with FreeBSD. After the basic install, prior to xorg, I got to work with a tty for the first time in my life. It was fun! Now I'm less scared of interacting with the shell. Sure, I've used the terminal in the 10 months I've been with Linux, but it took a BSD to teach me to "live" with the shell. :)

[pweddy]

The BSDs are the closest thing to direct descendants of Unix.

[ShawnWebb]

-STABLE refers to the ABI and API. The ABI and API on -STABLE branches doesn't change. If you wrote a progam on 13.0, it will still work on 13.1 because the ABI and API are both stable. -CURRENT is just where all the primary development is done. Commits are first made to -CURRENT (in git, the `main` branch). After some soak time, the commits are merged (in git, cherry-pcked) to the -STABLE branches, assuming that the commit doesn't change ABI or API stability.

[saeidgholami]

I have old PC with dual core cpu and 2 GB of memory, I've been using Arch on this PC but usually after a big update some problem used to be happened, some times system will freeze too which force me to push reset button in the PC. After 2021 version I couldn't install Arch some GPU problem I think. After this problem I decide to give chance for FreeBSD. It is the best think I've ever done, It's stable, fast and easy to use. I've been using it for 3 months right now and it's never crashed.
My only complain about FreeBSD is that some of python packages which installed by pip wouldn't work in FreeBSD and I think it's because directories structure and some C/C++ libraries path is different from Linux. To get over this problem I have to use FreeBSD already made packages which installed by a package manager called 'pkg'.
Thanks FreeBSD.

[TsukiToHotaru]

I've got my personal servers run FreeBSD a couple years ago. The usability and stability of FreeBSD really amazed me.

[cam]

Sill scratching my head wondering what the strong and complicated password could be.

[NaviciaAbbot]

DT, FreeBSD is a Unix Descendant, not a Unix-like.

Yes, I'm pedantic about this. Just like how I'm pedantic at pointing out the meaning behind GNU.

[blakkheim]

your description of the -stable branch is not correct. -release is the "stable" (in the general sense of the word) release branch. -release versions are cut from the -stable branch. that is to say, right now, 13.0-stable has newer features than the 13.0-release that recently came out.

[arrtemfly]

thanks for shedding the light! my father used to use it for around 15 years haha

[Talan]

The website looks like the nineties but FreeBSD deserves a try ! The installation is detailed but easy at the same time. This project looks serious and robust.

[LVLouisCyphre]

I've been using FreeBSD off and on since 2.1.6. Prior to that I cut my teeth in the IT business supporting Suns when the Sun SPARCstation 1 made its debut in 1989. SunOS 4.x is a BSD variant.

In my last house in my loft/office area I had a FreeBSD computing cluster and lab running FDDI and 100BTX hardware with a Cisco 4700M, a C1400 FDDI concentrator and a Cisco WS-C2924M-XL. FDDI NICs were dirt cheap on eBay plus I like the redundant architecture of FDDI. I had a Sun 386i and a Sun 4c/60 (SPARCstation 1) in my test area. I also a SCO Xenix and upgraded to a ISC Unix 2.x UUCP site in my apartment. This was back when the Internet was a network of dialup systems and also during the dialup BBS era. My loft/office was a Unix geek's paradise. I could have run a small ISP and hosting service out of my home.

I absolutely hate Linux. There are times I will use some canned disaster recovery distributions on a USB drive, but other than that. BLAH! If I need to go and wrench my servers and the operating system, I will choose FreeBSD or any BSD, for that matter, long before I'll dink with Linux.

If you're running a server farm or a custom firewall/router/VPN, I would run BSD.

It's also important to note that FreeBSD, and probably all BSDs, have Linux emulation. There's a lot of cross pollination of code between BSD and Linux and between the three BSD projects; Free, Net and Open. Just because it doesn't exist in FreeBSD doesn't mean you can't make it run under FreeBSD.

[landuaka]

Till now, I was happy to use Linux. But your video inspired me to try BSD. So I have installed OpenBSD 7.0 with xfce Desktop Environment in my VM. I am enjoying learning new things😊😊