I use arch linux as my daily driver and do a fair amount of gaming (on steam with games like bf4 l4d2 fallout new vegas etc) and was looking into freebsd recently and have very little knowledge of bsd distros (operating systems?) And I wanted to know if there's any good wikis or documentation on freebsd. And how is software support on freebsd? Are commands in terminals similar to linux? Is it even possible to game on freebsd?
Sorry if this is vague, I just don't know very much about this and if there's somewhere better to post this, please tell me.
Hello to everyone.
Below u can see all the tries that I did to find the correct file requested by the Opera for Linux that I've found inside the ports. Any file I tried didn't well. Do u know what could be the correct version ? 10x
root@marietto:/usr/home/marietto # /usr/local/bin/linux-opera
/usr/local/lib/linux-opera/opera: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
root@marietto:/usr/home/marietto # find / -name libfreetype.so.6
/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6
/usr/home/marietto/.i386-wine-pkg/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6
/compat/ubuntu/home/marietto/.i386-wine-pkg/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6
/compat/ubuntu/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6
^C
root@marietto:/usr/home/marietto # cp /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6 /lib
root@marietto:/usr/home/marietto # /usr/local/bin/linux-opera
/usr/local/lib/linux-opera/opera: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
root@marietto:/usr/home/marietto # rm /lib/libfreetype.so.6
root@marietto:/usr/home/marietto # cp /compat/ubuntu/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 /lib
root@marietto:/usr/home/marietto # /usr/local/bin/linux-opera
/usr/local/lib/linux-opera/opera: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
root@marietto:/usr/home/marietto # rm /lib/libfreetype.so.6
root@marietto:/usr/home/marietto # cp /usr/home/marietto/.i386-wine-pkg/usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6 /lib
root@marietto:/usr/home/marietto # /usr/local/bin/linux-opera
/usr/local/lib/linux-opera/opera: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libfreetype.so.6: ELF file OS ABI invalid
Six errata notices, one security advisory:
A few days ago, I was prompted by a certain fruit-flavored operating system to install a security update. After 150 minutes of a screen that said "About a minute remaining...." it failed, leaving the system unbootable. It had no third-party kernel extensions, a very modest load of third-party software (a streaming media encoder and a web browser), and the manufacturer controls the entire ARM64-based platform from silicon to gate-kept applications software. Moving from one known-good configuration to another was just too much for it, and it took most of a day to get it right again.
Last night, Mom asked me to look at her laptop, which has some other pane-full proprietary operating system installed, plus only other applications from that operating system's vendor and a well-known web browser. It refuses to boot, tries to diagnose itself, automatically repair itself, and fails because it has no idea which version of the OS is installed. What's wrong? 0xC0000225, 0x800f081f, and people says Unix is obtuse and non-discoverable. It refuses a reinstall in place, refuses to reimage itself from the OS vendor's "cloud" with such descriptive messages as, "There was a problem."
For sixteen years, I've run FreeBSD. The days before "pkg-ng" were sometimes rough. The days before freebsd-update were sometimes nail-biting with make world upgrades and mergemaster complaints, but I've never had FreeBSD leave me stranded. It always eventually works. Boot into the miniroot, run a couple commands, and it's all sorted-out again. When it doesn't work, it tells you what file is missing, what program can't run, or what hardware didn't get initialized. We consider it beneath us to spew only a hex code for some user to try to interpret while wondering if their data's still there.
SFC and DISM are programs which could only be the output of a company that doesn't need to compete on a basis of quality. Point-release updates to an OS which take hours over NVMe could only be the result of a company that does not value its customers' time.
FreeBSD's come a long, long, long way since I first ran 5.3 in a production environment, it's always treated me better than those legacy commercial operating systems, and our best days are yet to come.
So, while I'm sitting here, still trying to see if there's anything I can do t
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I’m having trouble finding information about using FreeBSD as a fileserver for a Windows 10 workstation via direct attached Connectx-3 40GbE cards.
I understand that SMB Direct is required for this to be performant, and as far as I can tell Samba 4.x supports SMB3 and therefore in theory SMB Direct with RDMA on both ends(?)
Is the lack of information due to the fact this should “Just Work” out of the box, or are there some useful resources that I need to consult to learn how to set this up?
Hello Everyone! I use Linux on daily bases but FreeBSD got my interest and i decided to try it as a daily driver and it's awesome i like how pkg works and i like the performance of FreeBSD i got my intel graphics working but does Nvidia work under FreeBSD? and does steam work on FreeBSD?
How is the support going on Apple Silicon Bare Metal?
Hello there,
I am moving some services to FreeBSD. Seems like nginx-amplify is not ready for FreeBSD or it needs some tweaks to install. Are there other third party monitor that plays well with NGINX and FreeBSD? thanks in advance.
I am considering switching from Linux to a BSD derivative or just building my own from the kernel up.
I perform ML using libraries such as Tensorflow and PyTorch which run great on Linux but sometimes crashes my machine after a long 12+ hour run processing video or imagery.
I use AMDGPU on a newer RX 6700 xt as well because of the open source nature of the drivers (not an AMD fanboy just wanted to get away from NVidia and CUDA proprietary land) and test the ROCm library out which isn’t all that great yet…
My question is….
How is FreeBSD for deep learning data science workloads?
I don’t see many posts on that subject. Not afraid to attempt it myself if I am the first one to brave testing it… I just don’t want to recreate the wheel if there is a thread or link already talking about it either!
Thanks in advance!!!
The answer is simple: download and use my script.
Time runs fast, MBR evolved to GPT, BIOS to UEFI and I followed the footsteps of good old Depenguinator 2.0 and 3.0 to bring some Christmas magic to the end of 2021 year.
This is a very early draft, the script abilities are very limited, there are a lot things to implement and many bugs to fix, but it runs fine on my laptop successfully installs FreeBSD 13.0 over the default CentOS Linux 8 on a VirtualBOX machine.
I really like OpenBSD but it lacks a few creature comforts like working Chrome so Netflix will work or a Wine to run Windows applications (games office suits). FreeBSD and Linux has these things, but recently I've been turned off to FreeBSD because of how they don't enable ASLR by default and how pkg fetches data from the Internet as root, etc. And Linux turns me off for that there seems to be no direction for the project and SystemD is an 800 pound gorilla trying to serve as init.
Do most of you just live without the things OpenBSD can't provide or do your dual boot, if so what is your second favorite OS after OpenBSD and how safe do you feel in it?
Thanks!
i need to monitor stats like cpu/io/memory/network both on node level as well as per process, the best i was able to find till now is python-psutil, but thats in python, i am looking for a inbuild solution or anything in Golang, Rust or bash.
i was able to gather metrics for cpu and memory using a messy bash script(ps and top command), but IO and n/w i am not able to do.
i am looking for a proper library or utility, i found many libraries in Go, but freebsd support is not so good in most of them.
i need to parse the metrics for prometheus to consume
Thanks in advance
Edit:Thanks everyone for response, as himay81 mentioned netdata seems to be promising for my use case, will update as i explore more
I don't use Docker or Kubernetes, but if I go outside the BSD community, I hear about how great Docker (or Linux containers) and Kubernetes is, and how they're the future of DevOps.
But when I go into the BSD circles, I hear that Docker and Kubernetes are bloated, crap software that's not needed on BSD and they actively refuse attempts to add Docker support even when Microsoft and Joyent are willing to "support" it.
How come?
Currently I'm using Windows 10 on an 8 year old laptop. Most days I surf the internet and read posts on a browser. I no longer game nearly as much, mostly because I lack a gaming PC, and I heard FreeBSD isn't really meant to game, but if I had to I think I can just run a Windows 10/11 VM to compensate. All I really do now is chat on discord and read articles on the web. I also love to tinker.
Hello.
On FreeBSD I've created several raw / img files of various OS that I've virtualized with bhyve and I've stored them on a UFS2 disk. Now,what I want to do is to virtualize those images with qemu and nvmm under the DragonFlyBSD. The problem is that DragonFlyBSD does not support UFS2. So,I've reinstalled the DragonFlyBSD on the disk that I will use to store the raw-img files of the virtual machines,but during the installation I've used the UFS fs instead of the HAMMER2 fs,because I thought that doing in this way I could have copied the vms from Freebsd to DFLY and viceversa. Unfortunately it seems that I can't mount that disk from FreeBSD. Someone knows why ? Maybe there is a specific switch to specify ufs1 ? I didn't find it.
The disk where I have installed the DFLY and that I want to use to store and share the files from FreeBSD to DFLY and viceversa is da1 :
Geom name: da1
Providers:
1. Name: da1
Mediasize: 1000204886016 (932G)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r0w0e0
descr: TOSHIBA External USB 3.0
lunid: 41736d6564696120
ident: 20130506005976F
rotationrate: unknown
fwsectors: 63
fwheads: 255
root@marietto:/home/marietto # ls /dev/da1*
/dev/da1 /dev/da1p1 /dev/da1p2
=> 63 1953259457 da1p2 MBR (931G)
63 1953259457 - free - (931G)
=> 34 1953525101 diskid/DISK-20130506005976F GPT (932G)
34 2014 - free - (1.0M)
2048 262144 1 efi (128M)
264192 1953259520 2 dragonfly-label64 (931G)
1953523712 1423 - free - (712K)
=> 63 1953259457 gptid/5da2a10d-668a-11ec-9f5e-e1d55ee21f22 MBR (931G)
63 1953259457 - free - (931G)
=> 63 1953259457 diskid/DISK-20130506005976Fp2 MBR (931G)
63 1953259457 - free - (931G)
Below u can see that I tried to mount the UFS partition while running FreeBSD,but it is not accepted :
root@marietto:/home/marietto # mount -t auto /dev/da1p2 /mnt/da1p2
mount: /dev/da1p2: Operation not supported by device
root@marietto:/home/marietto # mount -t ufs /dev/da1p2 /mnt/da1p2
mount: /dev/da1p2: No such file or directoryHello.
can someone suggest to me a good USB 3.0 controller compatible with FreeBSD that 's also self powered and that has at least 4 USB ports ? I wanna use it for making a better distribution of my USB disks between the bhyve VMS that I use eveyrday. Very thanks.
Hello everybody.
I'm currently building home server and I decided to learn something new so instead of using Linux which I'm most familiar with I've decided to use FreeBSD. I checked documentation and read about ZFS but I'm not sure how I should use it to get best results. Here is what I want - I want to have multiple services on my server (SMB, web, database etc.). I want to have everything on two mirrored (RAID1) hard disks. I don't really want to create separate partition for every service because I'm not sure how many space each would take. On Linux I would probably use Btrfs for that, create RAID1 volume using these two hard drives and then create subvolume for every service.
I'm not quite sure how I should translate it to FreeBSD with ZFS. I think I should keep every service in separate jail but how I should configure ZFS? I know that I can create mirrored zpool so my first pick would be creating separate zpool for every service but is it correct way to do that? Thank you from advance for answers.
I have tried run script with my java code a couple of times .cannot run program "!/bin/sh": error=2, no such file or directory.
Here is a code snippet.
ProcessBuilder pb1 = new ProcessBuilder("!/bin/sh", "-c", "ping -n 2 google.com & ipconfig");
Plz help me out if you know how to fix this.
Hello to everyone.
I would like to configure OBS studio on FreeBSD to stream the audio video from my home using the Kinect 2 embedded audio-video chipsets,but I'm realizing that the "OBS Studio Plugin: Output as Video4Linux2 device" does not work under FreeBSD,even if the port can be installed. Do you know if there is a workaround ?
I have a RPI3b+ and it runs FreeBSD 13.0 very well. I load from SD card using the supplied image, then run I unbound. It is not busy.
Does the SD card degrade over time with the OS doing writes?
(writes, I guess /var/log and maybe some other temporary files)
We have several hosts running 11.4 and 12.2 that we want to get up to date with at least 12.3 or 13.0 ...
However these servers have long been upgraded over time via the source tree and custom kernels. I believe going back as far as FreeBSD 8-9.
Instead of upgrading from sources we'd like to start using freebsd-update to do this. However, can we use freebsd-update to upgrade/install over a system that was previously installed/upgraded from the source tree?
Keeping in mind that when we used to upgrade from source we used src.conf to skip building a lot of optional packages we never used (sendmail, etc) and custom kernels we really just stripped the kernels down so we didn't have to compile all the modules and features we do not use. (parallel ports, plip, floppy drives, cdroms, etc). We would strip the kernel down to just what we used. It seems the modular GENERIC and freebsd-update is more the way to go (yes we're old school).
So the question is, can we use freebsd-update over top of install from source? Obviously we may have optional packages installed that we stripped out of makeworld (src.conf) and we'd have to make sure any kernel customizations or modules are loaded.
Has anyone done this?
Hello everyone. I am having trouble getting cinnamon 4.8.x to run on FreeBSD 13-p5. I installed it, got sddm to load, enabled dbus as well as set up the proc in fstab and when I go to open cinnamon from sddm or even from startx, it loads to the desktop, but it I can't click on anything. I can move the mouse, but nothing is responsive.
I have work with Windows & Ubuntu. I was becoming interested on FreeBSD and wanted to try it out.
If I created a hyperV VM with FreeBSD & KDE, will the normal functions like GUI & audio work propely on virtualization infrastructure ?
Quick question, checked the web and saw nothing about this, is there any way to have linuxulator run csgo on freebsd + vac? or has anyone done it?
Ive been following freebsd/netbsd for a while, if linux_compat or linuxulator could run csgo, tf2 and cs:s I would immediately switch to it.
Also, does FreeBSD 32bit(or 64bit) support 386BSD binaries?
Hi, I've setup wireguard but I need the DNS reresolve-script because I am using a DDNS. Where can I find this script on FreeBSD (in my TrueNas Jail)?
My first *BSD was FreeBSD and I love it, BUT I am concerned about how secure FreeBSD 13.0 is. ALSR by default isn't coming until 14.0, no position independent executables, etc.
I like OpenBSD a lot and it would be my natural choice, but it doesn't support Linux apps and no Linux Chrome not even wine is supported.
I have recently learned about HardenedBSD a fork of FreeBSD with all the good things about FreeBSD with the security of OpenBSD, BUT the project has like 2 developers and is super small.
So tl;dr - is FreeBSD safe enough for use on the wild Internet on a laptop or should I use OpenBSD or hardenedBSD?
Fresh install last night and with DWM
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