Quick Look at FreeBSD

[kieferdhendricks]

I've experimented with FreeBSD in the past but really didn't know what I was doing. I really enjoyed watching you shed a little light on this topic!

[mysticNTN]

I would love to see more *BSD videos from you. I really enjoy how simple and straight forward your Linux and Windows videos are.

[ngtube]

I like FreeBSD since version 2.1 🙂 It works and powers Servers, PCs and Laptops for me 🙂 Simple and stable...

[teldrah]

Thank you for your tutorials, man! They are easy to follow and straight to the point.

[friedrichmyers]

FreeBSD has been my daily driver and it works better than any OS (Linux distros included) I've used.

[thehady]

problem with bsd's is even MOSTopen source enthusiast and contributers forget abt it .I think we should try to make most of things that work on linux also work on the bsd's to try and prevent duplication and since i think they are in posix family it wouldn't be that hard

[justacat]

me, watching this on FreeBSD 14: huh, i wonder what this "BSD" thing is

[Sarfarazzamani]

Excellent! Please more tutorial on FreeBSD. It deserves more attention

[daverei]

I used to use FreeBSD around the turn of the century to build custom kernels with custom hardware to do very specific functions on i386 based hardware, and then write specific apps to action. For example a frame grabber card on an analog camera to detect the state of the ironing board power switch, so I could know where I did actually leave the iron on.Firewalls, routers between niche network devices, 16 serial terminal cards to interact with other serial devices, and some bespoke hardware. With the ability to hack the kernel, build files and source, you could modify existing kernel code to do whatever you wanted. I started using it as William Jolllizes 386BSD, into FreeBSD and stopped using it after release 4.3 when my work life balanced changed to work…. Miss those days.

[lashlarue]

oh, hello. This must be the place on the internets where all the smart ppl hang out.

[warrenhenning]

FreeBSD definitely seems cool. Have you run it as a daily driver on bare metal? I'm sure the core kernel stuff is rock-solid and it'd be great for running a server, but if you try to do desktop user things with GPU drivers, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if there were problems, probably with the drivers themselves and not core FreeBSD. That is also where desktop Linux always has problems on my machines.

[luisramirez-orvg]

Apparently, The PlayStation 3 & 4 OS are derived from a version of FreeBSD 9

[chrisxdeboy]

I am so looking forward to that FreeBSD DIY distro tutorial. If possible, could you go over how to create symlinks within the iso? I wanna try my hand at recreating the GoboLinux filesystem hierarchy in a FreeBSD-based system.

[pavel]

I'm watching this video from FreeBSD 13.2 installed on my Lenovo T440s laptop. I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop OS for more than 3 years and don't want to switch back to Linux.

[ekathird]

There are more window managers and "desktop" packages as well. I've been using MATE on my home FreeBSD desktop / file server for a while now.

[bartek]

could you create similar overview of Gentoo and Wayland? hard things explained simple and without bulshit, awesome!

[theoriginalneckbeard]

I run OpenBSD as a daily driver, using Windows only for Gaming.

All the way.

[bjelinski]

about "explained" - I would expect a few words why we should bother about FBSD?! what is the added value compared to Linux ? FBSD saved my life 30 years ago, I am still grateful.

[DannyB]

Is there a C course or any particular C resources you recommend?

[KyleHarrisonRedacted]

So easy and intuitive! It’s a wonder it hasn’t caught on Lol