Seven years of running FreeBSD on ThinkPads alongside Linux — lessons I'd give my younger self
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Posted by Luis Emanuel to r/BSD:
I daily-drive Linux at work and FreeBSD on my personal ThinkPads (T480 & P52 currently). Both laptops and both operating systems, every day. I'm the kind of person who reads freebsd-update output and Phoronix benchmarks in the same hour.
Recently saw the "is FreeBSD really that goated" thread and it brought back the timeline of my own journey. Started with a rough — call it version 0.9 — build that barely had X11 working, evolved through five iterations, landed on something I'd call "production-stable personal desktop" around version 2.0 on FreeBSD 15.0 with a heavily customized MATE, ZFS boot environments, BastilleBSD jails for microservices, WireGuard tunnels and PF.
If I could send a packet back in time to my earlier self, here's what I'd put in the payload:
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Question for this sub
What's the one thing you wish someone had told you in your first year on FreeBSD?
I suspect we'll generate a better FAQ in this thread than the wiki currently has.
Yesterday from the same author:
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T tionisla@mastodon.bsd.cafe shared this topic
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Posted by Luis Emanuel to r/BSD:
I daily-drive Linux at work and FreeBSD on my personal ThinkPads (T480 & P52 currently). Both laptops and both operating systems, every day. I'm the kind of person who reads freebsd-update output and Phoronix benchmarks in the same hour.
Recently saw the "is FreeBSD really that goated" thread and it brought back the timeline of my own journey. Started with a rough — call it version 0.9 — build that barely had X11 working, evolved through five iterations, landed on something I'd call "production-stable personal desktop" around version 2.0 on FreeBSD 15.0 with a heavily customized MATE, ZFS boot environments, BastilleBSD jails for microservices, WireGuard tunnels and PF.
If I could send a packet back in time to my earlier self, here's what I'd put in the payload:
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Question for this sub
What's the one thing you wish someone had told you in your first year on FreeBSD?
I suspect we'll generate a better FAQ in this thread than the wiki currently has.
Yesterday from the same author:
Posted by Luis Emanuel
The author has joined Mastodon: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Darknessraptor
I edited his ID into the cross-post at https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116582237166883625.
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Posted by Luis Emanuel to r/BSD:
I daily-drive Linux at work and FreeBSD on my personal ThinkPads (T480 & P52 currently). Both laptops and both operating systems, every day. I'm the kind of person who reads freebsd-update output and Phoronix benchmarks in the same hour.
Recently saw the "is FreeBSD really that goated" thread and it brought back the timeline of my own journey. Started with a rough — call it version 0.9 — build that barely had X11 working, evolved through five iterations, landed on something I'd call "production-stable personal desktop" around version 2.0 on FreeBSD 15.0 with a heavily customized MATE, ZFS boot environments, BastilleBSD jails for microservices, WireGuard tunnels and PF.
If I could send a packet back in time to my earlier self, here's what I'd put in the payload:
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Question for this sub
What's the one thing you wish someone had told you in your first year on FreeBSD?
I suspect we'll generate a better FAQ in this thread than the wiki currently has.
Yesterday from the same author:
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Yesterday from the same author:
The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Two Systems on My Desk | The FreeBSD ForumsRAhhh, sorry; but it needs to login.
it needs to login.
Strange. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/the-cathedral-the-bazaar-and-the-two-systems-on-my-desk.102706/ was visible to the public when I shared the link (I logged out in 2024).
Maybe it was removed because some of the post discussed Linux. @darknessraptor@mastodon.bsd.cafe any idea?
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I get the same (and don't intend to log in, although I do have an account). Maybe moderators felt that this rule applied:
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I get the same (and don't intend to log in, although I do have an account). Maybe moderators felt that this rule applied:
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