Hello,

I am trying to get sound working in FreeBSD. I read 9th chapter of FreeBSD handbook(https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/multimedia/). I have succesfully configured the sound card, it shows in dmesg | grep pcm and also in cat /dev/sndstat. however when I try to use beep command to test the speaker, it doesn't work ( I can't hear anything from the sound card).

Hello,

I have just installed freebsd however I couldn't get sway to start, It was crashing saying "no GPU found". so I went to IRC libera chat and asked how to resolve this issue and one guy helped me to install necessary drivers for my PC. just wanted to share it :)

I love BSD community

I own a desktop but have been wanting to switch to something more portable. I have been saving up for a laptop and, as such, will soon be installing and reconfiguring an OS from scratch (one of my favorite pastimes). I’m normally an Artix Linux user, but I’ve been becoming increasingly intrigued by BSD.

Arguably both the best and worst thing about Linux is that it’s just a kernel, which means there’s so many ways to do one thing (musl vs glibc, x vs wayland, pipewire vs pulse vs alsa and so on). This is great because it allows the ecosystem to innovate and stay modern and lets people like me kitbash a system that’s perfect for them. However, it also forces developers to build compatibility layers, distribute and manage multiple builds, etc. Generally, it’s just messy. Now, I could just use a “fully-featured” OS like Mint, Fedora, or Ubuntu, but I prefer lighter systems, and I absolutely love custom tailoring a system to fit my needs. I couldn’t tell you why.

From the research I’ve do

I'm asking like packages/ports to install and things to install. I don't have a desktop environment yet, but I'm thinking about using i3

Comment by drewg123 on July 25, 2019

I met Linus at the Linux BOF at the 1994 Boston USENIX. Very ironically, I have Linus to thank for a long career using FreeBSD. It sounds like a cheap shot, but please hear me out:

I was sysadmin'ing a university stats department at the time, and NFS use was very important. I had been trying to use Linux on 486's, but performance of xdvi (with NFS mounted fonts) was abysmal. A 486 would take minutes to render the same page that a wimpy DECStation could render in a second. From tcpdump, I figured out it was because Linux did not do any sort of NFS caching at the time, and xdvi wandered around font files one byte at a time.

I asked Linus at the BOF when they planned to implement NFS. He told me NFS was unimportant, nobody used it, and so on.

I then attended the FreeBSD BOF where a clean shaven guy in a collared shirt was giving a power point presentation. I asked about NFS there, and was tol

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23633869

How could I get started with BSD?

hello,

I want to learn and deep dive into BSD systems. I am a Linux user for more than 3 years and now I am curious to learn and use BSD since BSD is similar to Linux and has binary compatibility.

sadly my laptop wifi card isn't supported by any BSD systems. so I can't use it as my daily driver. so where should I go or do to learn more about BSD?

cross-posted from: https://blendit.bsd.cafe/post/140936

cross-posted from: https://blendit.bsd.cafe/post/140935

Since migrating many servers from Proxmox to FreeBSD, we have consistently felt that the VMs are more responsive. It's time to conduct some concrete tests.

Just a guide on how I got MariaDB working instead of SQLite for my PhotoPrism instance running on a FreeBSD jail.

I saw that the FreeBSD Foundation announced it was working with Framework to certify their laptops to be able to run FreeBSD out of the box. I am currently running GhostBSD (FreeBSD-based for anyone who is unfamiliar) and was wondering some things about reporting bugs.

1. Do I just report them to the normal Bugzilla tracker? Or is there somewhere else I should report bugs?
2. Is it a problem that I'm running GhostBSD instead of normal FreeBSD? I know it is based on FreeBSD Stable, but I wanted to check in case it would be different enough that I should be reporting elsewhere.