#freebsd
GhostBSD - Almost Ready for Prime Time
Little “nickel-and-dime” issues have given me pause about making #GhostBSD my daily driver, but 3 out of 4 of them were resolved after a bit of searching and applying things. I even managed to get ungoogled-chromium to accept uBlock-Origin with one complicated workaround. I would have been better off to just install Brave using a linux-compatibility layer from the #FreeBSD repo. I probably still will do that, since YouTube has decided to block ungoogled-chromium.
Cairo-dock locked up and froze everything up once, and once was enough. I replaced it with Plank just because I wanted a dock rather than just another Xfce panel for nothing but launchers. Just enough eye candy to make the difference I like. I had to turn off "shadows" in Xfce's window manager tweaks to erase a stupid horizontal line that appeared above the dock (which it also did with Cairo-dock), no big deal.
Settings don’t stick after a reboot, though, and I have to use Pulseaudio mixer to restore my USB headset to usefulness every time I log out and back in. There must be some way to make my settings “stick” between sessions!
Other than those little minor annoyances, I think this could become my daily driver. It would ease my concerns about:
- The literal takeover of Linux by IBM, Microshit, and Google, plus
- the whole stupid #systemd cancer that effects even most distros that claim to be “systemd-free.”
GhostBSD lacks some of the wicked-cool GUI stuff that spoiled me in Linux distros, like “minstick” and Systemback (later “Timeshift”), but those tasks are actually easily handled from the command line. There’s even some GUI stuff for keeping bootable snapshots of the existingOS (with /home, /etc, and other stuff backed up separately). This is an almost-ready-for-prime-time OS for BSD beginners with a little bit of Linux experience.
#BSD Runs Faster than #Linux - even in a Live Session
Pow, zoom, zip! Snappy, nimble, and quick! No #systemd pollution and monitoring of every little process. 30,000+ software titles available including most all my favorites (except BSD thinks that Seamonkey is "abandonware").
Everything works. Including wifi. It's not very much different from running Slackware-based #SalixOS, and it has lots of nice GUI tools for users like me who are scared of pushing the wrong button and accidentally igniting the Earth's atmosphere and destroying all life on the planet or something.
Got a sweet Xfce desktop on at the moment, but I think I'll try Openbox + Plank and a few little bits of eye candy here and there. Lots of room to play.
Rolling-release, too! No having to re-install and reconfigure every so often, or trying to preserve /home and finding that configuration files won't work after an update. All that trouble goes away as well.
If you're a GUI boy like me, and want to explore a UNIX-like system that hasn't been bought, gone woke, or been politicized down to the very kernel itself, I heartily recommend #GhostBSD as an introduction to the still-unsullied FOSS world of #FreeBSD!
Pour info, des petits problèmes ont été repérés l'année dernière. L'inclusion de endian.h est désormais standardisée et a changé de place sous #FreeBSD.
I've been using it for several years on one of my home laptops, and now (after the words of the arrogant Linus Tovralds) FreeBSD will be my primary system.
FreeBSD at 30: the History and Future of the Most Popular BSD-Based OS
#featured #originalart #softwaredevelopment #freebsd #operatingsystem #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2
Service outage / Coupure de service
Un paquet de mises à jour pour #FreeBSD sont en attente sur le serveur popeye. Je vais lancer la procédure dans la soirée, les services suivant vont être indisponible un petit moment.
A set of #FreeBSD patches are pending on the popeye server.I will proceed to server and jails upgrades later in the evening.
The following services will be unavailable for a while:
Service outage / Coupure de service
Un paquet de mises à jour pour #FreeBSD sont en attente sur le serveur popeye. Je vais lancer la procédure dans la soirée, les services suivant vont être indisponible un petit moment.
A set of #FreeBSD patches are pending on the popeye server.I will proceed to server and jails upgrades later in the evening.
The following services will be unavailable for a while:
Migration des jails php de 8.2 vers 8.3.
Soit, le wiki, le forum et un nextcloud.
Pour les poudrieres:
- Changement de la flavor de php:
DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=php=8.3. - migration des ports autonomes:
sed -i bak 's/php82/php83' *-list
Pour les jails:
1. suppression de php82: pkg -j jail remove -x php82
a. Mise Ă jour de composer pour le flarum
b. Réinstallation des paquets maîtres pour les autres.
php8.2 to php8.3 migration