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.

  • SirLotsaLocks
    3·
    4 years ago

    I’m here because I like small and independent operating systems, though personally I havent been able to get it running on bare metal yet.

    • vendionOP
      2·
      4 years ago

      Nice, sounds like my interest in Minix and other micro-kernel operating systems, although I don’t have any systems that run any.

      I havent been able to get it running on bare metal yet.

      The way that is worded has me currious is that due to time, hardware constrains, or something else if you don’t mind me asking?

      • SirLotsaLocks
        1·
        4 years ago

        A mix of all three, although time isn’t too much of a constraint atm I don’t have very open source friendly hardware (mainly because of my NVIDIA graphics card) and also I do not have a spare drive to set it up on either. I also kind of wanted to get proficient in linux before I started branching off into smaller (and more pure) unix systems on bare metal so I haven’t been particularly rushing to get it done.

        It’d be my dream to have a bunch of small drives with small OSes like BSD, Haiku, ReactOS, and others with a boot switcher but from my understanding thats impossible at the moment and very time consuming.