NomadBSD-13R-20210508

In this video we'll be taking a look at the latest release of the portable/mobile FreeBSD based NomadBSD - from updating to running some much requested software - does it stack up? **Note- many production problems with this video, so uploaded as is :-) and for some reason this transcoded to only 720p, so you'll have to squint :-) **
Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00
Preparing the USB - 0:09
Updating & Looking Around - 5:26
Something for those that ask - 7:38
Having a Look Around - 12:43
Thoughts - 18:27
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[GiorgioBeltrammi]

My actual miniPC is an Acer Veryton N series with a 1.5 GHz processor. NomadBSD run on it very smoothly. NomadBSD's developers done a great job! Thanks a lot.

[bobr]

Great introduction to Nomad. Thank you

[TheGroundScore]

Would be greatly appreciated if you included a short Conky install & config. Really enjoy your tutorials, thanks 🙏

[andreash.]

A big issue always is to get the printer working. I gave it a try with OpenBSD and FreeBSD, but was not able to get my Canon MF 4580 even beeing recognised. I`m still hoping for a BSD system that solves this problem.

[C]

Although the USB install is by itself awesome, it is nice you have an option to install it to hdd. Nice review, thank you!

[SoloBSD]

No doubt NomadBSD is by far the best LiveBSD around.

[GrepHaxs]

Have to admit the title through me a bit but after watching as always i am glad i did great video RoboNuggie thank you .

[zaharib]

Watching your 4:3 video on my trusty ol 4:3 ThinkPad. Great video and another great episode RoboNuggie 🥰

P.S On the installer there was a checkbox with apply Lenovo Fix or something like that... Looks like your a Dell enthusiast RN.. 😊 Any viewers here who run ThinkPads have an idea what it’s trying to fix?

P.P.S. The more the years go by the more I dislike modern day television. I much prefer “procuring” older tv series and watching them on my 4:3 ThinkPad... Kinda like driving a nice classic car over the weekend 🥰.

Thanks again for the videos RN 🥰👍🏼

[TradersTradingEdge]

Nice, I like the posiibility for Vivaldi.
Many thanks for the helpful recording.
Have a happy day :)

[andrewpalm]

Thanks so much for this video! I have tried NomadBSD on a USB stick in the past, but did not stick with it because it was hard to see how to install it to an SSD to use as a permanent distro on a laptop. Now it looks as though such an installation is easy to do, but I still have a nagging question. Can NormadBSD be updated on a hard drive while preserving user data? Thanks in advance if you have an answer. Cheers from Wisconsin.

[rjj]

Hi - Thank you for the great videos you have made!

After installing NomadBSD on a flash drive, it worked very nicely. Then installed on 320gb HDD and added XFCE - very nice. Then noticed in Octopkg on the XFCE 320gb HDD installation there were 202 packages that needed to be upgraded and 196 on the flash drive install.

After upgrading the packages with Octopkg, the default desktop (window manager?) disappeared - only the right-click menu exists - and the user/share/applications listed in Thunar were only 6. On the HDD with XFCE, the same happened with the default desktop, but somehow XFCE survived unscathed.

Made a couple of fresh flash drives and tried it again on a T450s ThinkPad and a T420 Thinkpad - same result - without any other configuration - just upgrading the 196 packages.

The previous week I tried FreeBSD, but did not have these issues.

There was nothing under "News" in Octopkg, at the NomadBSD or FreeBSD website, or online that I could find. My friend, who is also trying NomadBSD found the same result on his computers.

It appears that the repository package upgrade breaks the system.

I am a Linux user - Do you know if this is a bug or is NomadBSD not updated the same way, or are we doing something else wrong? Or where to find information about it?

[sigmaroll]

what is a tv tuner card you can recommend?

[jimharris]

RoBoNuggie is there a way to install the Linux Installer on FreeBSD to install Vivaldi? I do not think there is a way to just install Vivaldi using pkg.

[port-k-s]

Is it essential to install nomadBsd first on any usb then on hdd? Or I can directly install it on hdd from live usb?

[pianokeyjoe]

Hmm, I do not remember NomadBSD being able to install to HDD before? I could be wrong though. Is that a new feature? Or was it there from the git go? This really showcases what you can enjoy with FreeBSD when everything actually works(I am talking to YOU Octopkg!!!!). Very nice!

[NealNelson]

Since they're using FreeBSD, it would be nice if they could give back some of the utilities to the ports system, such as the Linux browser installer. There are no ports for any of them that I can see.

[carltaylor]

I couldn't get this to work at anything other than 640x480 which is unusable. Shame as it looks interesting. Couldn't find any useful information on changing scre
en resolution. Anybody able to help?

[MarcSola]

The Linux distro that NomadBSD used for their linux binary is of course Ubuntu.
That of course would come in handy if anyone want to run Steam on NomadBSD.

[ijiopu]

I got lost on the Kodi section...
There's an explanation on another video???
Why choose the other packages???

[johanb.]

Nice addition, but Netflix only for those 3 options and not Firefox?