Hello all,
Glad to see that there is already a FreeBSD, and greater BSD, community already created on Lemmy. Although with 40 subscribers and the last post here being almost a month old let’s try and get this community rolling. To that end I pose the following question: What is your FreeBSD setup like?
For me I have a few FreeBSD boxes that I use. I have a general use desktop with herbstluftwm running where I do most non-work related things. I also have a small server that I use mainly for building a few ports that I maintain, and trying to get more into maintaining/contributing to other ports. I also have a Bhyve VM here running a dev version of PacBSD (kind of a defunct project sadly, but do intend to try and kick it off again). I also have a FreeBSD VM running on DigitalOcean which hosts my personal website and runs ZNC (toying with the idea of replacing this with a Matrix <-> IRC bridge as I experiment more with Matrix). I also have a FreeNAS box where I store most of my media (Music, TV shows, Movies, etc) that I access either with NFS to play locally on another box or through Emby.
Yeah the introduction of packages and
pkgis a huge plus vs having to build everything from the ports tree. Also mixing ports and packages are no longer a bad thing as they are aware of each other and a lot of issues that came up when you have some things installed viapkgand others installed from ports has been resolved.For jails I use iocage to build and manage those, and vm-bhyve to manage my VMs and happy with both. I think ezjails is no longer maintained, the last release I see for it was from 2015. Iocage was really easy to get setup and easy to use (assuming you have a ZFS pool setup for it).
I heard good things about NomadBSD, and for live environments you can run off a USB drive there is also FuryBSD as well that may be worth looking into.
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Nice I wish you luck with that. I switched my desktop over years ago and have not looked back. Altough switching for me was fairly easy as I have been playing with FreeBSD in VMs for a while before that (so I was already familiar with the differences between the two OSes) and all my bare metal machines were running Arch Linux. Now just my work laptop runs Arch Linux.
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Yeah I’m sure it still works, just no release since 2015 and it looks like the last commit for it was in 2016 of course they may have migrated their development somewhere else and not updated their site. So it may “just work” or it’s days of working may be limited. Of course YMMV.
I don’t think the jails ABI is in a massive state of flux, but it would probably be wise to test it with FreeBSD-CURRENT (soon-ish to be 13.0) or look into a different tool.
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