FreeBSD is beautifully simple and wonderfully elegant to work with, ports are fantastic and kernel configuring is straightforward. Getting it to work with your hardware is another story

twm is "Tom's Window Manager", after Tom LaStrange who wrote it. Thanks for the video - BSD deserves more coverage.

Thank you for doing these videos.

Do you know that feeling when you stumble upon an amazing channel full of well-made videos and lots of information about the things you like? I have that feeling. I'm gonna look to see if you have an openBSD video. In case you don't, I would love to watch that :]

Thank you for such an immersive and informational video about FreeBSD! This practical introduction was just exactly what I was looking for :D

Well done! Great video as always.

SMT is not Symetrical Multi-Threading it is Simultaneous Multi-Threading.

Thanks for the video. Learning about FreeBSD.

Great demo, cheers from Bulgaria :)

The thing I learned here about Linux being a kernel And BSD is a whole os and BSD license is offering more freedom the gpl , is amazing. I use Linux for several years as just a mere newborn, like playing music, watching online video, sending emails and burning DVDs. Know nothing about the core server stuffs that Linux or BSD boasts of having powered several thousand server machines on this planet. Thank you very much for this.

Loved the video, keep`em coming.

Thanks DJ!

Greetings DJ!!! As you know I have recently started testing GhostBSD 20.04 on an Alienware M15x laptop. It comes with the Mate DE as default, in which I immediately activated the Brisk menu written by the founder of Solus. Ports is pre-set up. Thank you for teaching me on the 'glances' command. Interesting watching you set up xorg plus DE. Enjoying having coffee with you on Sunday mornings in Steve's chat.

I'm new to Linux and BSD this has become one of my go to youtube channels.

Nice video, well done. A tad slow paced for me however very thorough and well explained. Really enjoy your presentation, calm and easy to listen to. Thumbs up for sure. I'd love to see a video comparing OpenBSD to FreeBSD. I loved that little chuckle you gave when mentioning PORTS and that you don't use it anymore :-) I've pretty much had enough of that kinda stuff myself (as I ease into retirement after 35yrs coding!) (ps: I was a beta tester before the very first BSD/OS release delivered in a stack of 5.25" floppies! I was rooting for them to crush SCO which I hated having to use)

I love your videos. I have enjoyed distro hopping and, in the past, have considered installing one of the BSDs on many occasions, but now, in my dotage, I find Debian is perfect for my needs. But thank you for exploring where I am now too lazy to go.

Thank you so much for this video. I didn't know anything about FreeBSD.

Great review! Used it intermittently as my desktop system in the past. :-D

Thanks for a very good primer!

I am a big fan of freebsd. Been using with it off and on since version 5.

Thanks s lot, Sir! At last I got a simple and detailed instructions of how to setup a graphic desktop on FreeBSD.

(Unix like os) newby during pandemic lockdown: 1st installed Arch, then Gentoo and now I'm taking on the 😈. Well, I think I love it. Packages and tools I need are all available. Thanks for the tutorial.

Really great video! Thanks for sharing FreeBSD stuff... Regards from Chile

Love this video ! Thank you. Would encourage you to keep plugging with FreeBSD, and maybe do a video on jails and maybe using Bastille to easily do containers on BSD. Im very much a Linux head too - been on it since 1991, on 0.99 release. I was on linux when it looked like "the internet" was never going happen, because both Microsoft and IBM were trying hard to make sure the network would be proprietary only. TCP/IP won of course, and with it all these little linux machines got slipped in through the back door at every institution to join the party. It was a buzz to be part of that. Only really been on the FreeBSD train for about a year+ now. Happy I made the move though, its like being home again. I see it as the rightful heir to Linux in keeping that flame of digital liberty alive and kicking. Its also a fantastic, consistent, and highly advanced OS. OpenBSD is technically better again from an engineering point of view. Im actually a bit concerned about where Linux is headed next. Not the kernel so much as the whole ecosystem that has grown around it. Its not the rebel OS from hell that it was in the 90s, or the brazen upstart that it was in the 2000's. Its almost like its a product jointly owned by - Amazon/Google/Microsoft/Oracle/IBM/etc. I dont think that systemd growing to take over and replace everything was an accident of nature either. Just my opinion, but I dont like what Im seeing. "The Cloud" - we are back at the very proprietary and corporate network that we were supposed to avoid in the first place with all this OpenSource work. People have traded liberty for convenience, and its about to bite hard. Imagine what's next once Canonical gets swallowed up - by Amazon ? by Microsoft ? by Oracle ? by HP ? Its not that far fetched in the current environment, and we have to seriously consider what our beloved Linux will look like once its fully owned and out of our hands entirely. The day is not far away, GPL or not. Eventually - using Linux might mean you will need to enter your Microsoft credentials to login to the Kubernetes cluster that is managing your home directory that is stored on Amazon S3. lol. Far fetched, yes, but still, lol.

Nice! It's been about 16 years that I put my hands on FreeBSD. Definitely do more on it!

This video exudes 'fellow kids' in the best way possible

I absolutely love free BSD and other BSD Oses. I hope to play around with them more when i get more free time. I hope it gets a lot more users considering how windows and mac os are currently behaving.

Thanks for your great video! Will have a try for freeBSD to find the difference between BSD and Linux.

Have Freebsd 12.1 and debian, Imac and mac pro. Use 9 unix, and write C/C+×. Talk from Barcelona. First computer spectrum 128k, and dragon 64k with Unix. 44 years living, from Barcelona.

thank you sir, new fan of you

This was really helpful

Thank you!

great video. thanks.

Shell means a thread for processing. With different features of access. Don't get scared of shell. It just helps to run something over a hardware. Interrupt driven helps to work at ease.

bsd user here

Very nice Video, I used to use akot of distros in Linux Arch sometimes Debian but you convince me to try this.

Thanks.

Cool, found a new channel with entertainment content, subbed.

Great presentation. I would like if you can show how to install manually partitioning in shell mode and complete using bsdinstall and in UEFI systems.

Hey there Ware! Thanks for this. I manage some linux servers on and off prem and I'm a long time linux desktop user. Currently I use Clear Linux with Gnome as my daily driver, because I really enjoy the way CL leaves the user space alone. If there are configs under /etc it's nice to know I'm the one who put them there, especially when it comes to things like systemd units. I'm surprised you didn't mention more about that in your CL video (which is how I happened across you!). Anyway this video is what got me to subscribe. I really appreciate it. I've been thinking about trying out freebsd as a desktop os, just to sharpen up for working with some of the appliances, and because I love zfs and the freedom. I was wondering how difficult it may be to get started. It looks like a breeze thanks to you! Thanks again.

Thanks Sir Appreciate

Since June 2019 I use FreeBSD 12.x running on ZFS for ~1 hour/week in a headless backup server. The PC is based on a 2003 HP d530 SFF motherboard; Pentium 4 HT (3.0 GHz); 1280 MB DDR (400 MHz); 4 HDDs with in total 1.21 TB (3.5" IDE; 250+320 GB and 2.5" SATA-1; 2x320 GB ) and 1 Gbps Ethernet. The tower is an ancient Compaq Evo Tower with a Windows 98SE activation sticker :) I use FreeBSD with XFCE; Conky and XRDP and the backup uses ZFS "send | ssh receive". It works fine with that old hardware, no memory problems, only the Ethernet link runs at ~200 Mbps due to 95% load on one CPU-thread for the network process. I will NOT switch over to Linux no 32-bits support for ZFS.

I really like pkg. In contrary to apt, autoremove actually works really well. With apt you can never install a package (with lots of deps) just to try it out and be able to completely uninstall it to the same state as before. apt leaves a lot of stuff installed that autoremove doesn't pick up. Luckily I don't have to deal with apt much, other than on my Raspberry PI (raspbian).

This is one of your best videos! I am really enjoying all of them. I also said that you still use BSD as your file server because of ZFS. I am trying to get ZFS going on Linux but it seems kinda iffy so I am hesitant to trust my data to it. Would you please do a video on setting up a FreeBSD server with ZFS, NextCloud, PLEX and Bitwarden? That is what I am currently trying to do as I move away from Winows, Google, etc ...

Thanks so much 😃👍 hope to be useful to you all in the near future!

At last true channel for nerds!!!!

I wanna know how you got obs running without a lag! :)

I like MacOS and FreeBSD

Thank You for this video! Great! Will You review also Open BSD?

Please what key did you use to enter the next line to type in the proc filé? Thank you

man you are very funny :)))) teacher liked it so much i want to learn more, you can make other videos of setup firewall, iptables and ftp server with vsftpd .. you are very good and with that laugh and a show .... Take care

Gnome is the least updated DE. FreeBSD is really stable :)

I suscribed just because of the Laws of Robotics poster.

The OS on a lot of Nintendo consoles are based on FreeBSD

as someone who has been a linux guy since he was around 13ish... bsd has always held a special place in my heart. it's just so darn stable, and self contained. there's something truly special and magical about using it IMO. not sure why i don't use it more. posting this from a windows pc btw, because of games lol.

TWM is Tom's Window Manager

I am starting with BSD and my first impression is "I find it archaic in regards to the way drivers are configured". and if you don't have them available for BSD then Linux is the next part. I would like you to show how to handle and deal with this topic if it is possible. Thx. :)

Hi DJ, what is the virtual environment/hypervisor software you use to install BSD, the UI looks quite nicer than virtualbox

Hi, I found your video very interesting. Not because I didn't know FreeBSD, but because of your interesting way of explaining what is on the screen and whole the background of FreeBSD. I'm FreeBSD and OpenBSD system administrator since 2008 and I'd like to talk to you about issues with FreeBSD if you wouldn't mind. Greetings! Teodor

Talked me out of it. Thank ya, sir. lol

Like, its good

I'd like to hear your comments on NetBSD and OpenBSD. I ran these systems a while ago, and I loved them.

TWM is (was?) the tiling window manager. Tom LS may have written it, but there's history around the other name. When I worked in academia, I was first introduced to UWM, the "ugly window manager". I don't recall that the latter was ever in the X.org project. (And it really was ugly.)

06:04 Hello @DJ Ware, you forgot about my favorite Fvwm.

FreeBSD is the grandfather of macOS. Literally

If you want to use BSD aren't you better off with Ghost BSD wich is more suited for the desktop than Free BSD?

Thanks for the video. I got BSD/Gnome working when I did exactly what you did setting up BSD. Host is MX Linux 18 and virtualbox. The pointer problem is the same which leads me to believe that it is a problem with FreeBSD? Doesn't have the pointer problem when I run skywave linux in VB. I had checked some other stuff off on install a few times and Gnome wouldn't start. Also as of August Glances 37 (only 2.7) doesn't come up on a package search. Couldn't figure out why that was. Anyway I'm no expert at all. I installed and played around with FreeBSD 4 or 5 times before doing what you did exactly and getting Gnome to start. Maybe why KDE wouldn't start for you.

I've tried using doesn't seem to work well with my amd rx 480 card.

I don't know if you're already aware of this, but CDE was open-sourced and people have gotten it up and running on Linux and the *BSDs. You have to compile most of it yourself, but it's just the typical ./configure; make; sudo make install once you have the requisite dependencies installed through your package manager.

Do you have any tutorials about TAILS?

Try editting /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf and set it to use latest instead of quarterly and upgrade packages, it will probably fix most of your KDE issues.

What's the J stand for?

96 MB RAM is to run the basic system. 2-4 GB is required if you want to run a modern web browser.

What's the working not vbox please

so the Ghost BSD wont work with ATI viedeo cards the only thing I can run Ghost BSD on is an old Sony Vaio laptop with intel graphics

What operating system does it use and what interface? The system he uses by default and not that of the Virtual Machine...

Please take a look at the openSUSE based RegataOS.

11:20: SMP symmetric multiprocessing; SMT is simultaneous multithreading, not symmetric multithreading

Hang on, wasn't the Linux tooling also derived from the Berkeley's FreeBSD work? I understand that Linus wrote a new kernel but everything else was derived from FreeBSD, no? Since Linux is just a kernel and FreeBSD is a complete system, one could say that the Linux kernel is indigenously Linux but the actual Linux OSes are derived from FreeBSD.

Wasn’t PlayStation run on Yellow Dog Linux? Joe

Can one use Proton VPN with FreeBSD?

Too bad I'm stuck with Android devices at the moment. Well, I did install FreeBSD on an old Gateway successfully before the computer died

Is zfs faster than xfs

Oh man, I would be pulling my hair out setting this up having been a long time user of linux distros😬😬😬

Linux does a great job on the computer, but when it comes to the internet, BSD leaves it standing in the dust.

OpenBSD is the best Linux distribution... (joking, don’t worry. - Of course well all know that’s Arch)

so it's literally no gui? woah.. nevermind

The Linux Kernel INCLUDES most drivers. The GPL does not require you to return any code that you change back, UNLESS YOU DISTRIBUTE YOUR code to a third party. If you keep all your changes to yourself, that's fine, but once you release your system for sale, or for free, you must release all of the source code. Not so with BSD, do with it what you want. I'd probably use KDE over Gnome or XFCE. KDE actually has the smallest memory footprint BION.

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Sound like you have broken a US Jail and OUT and still have yet NOT changed the dress.

To install in virtual box is easy.... but to install in pc with gnome support is not a success...it failed to load gnome

Sometimes I don't know why most bsd users tell me, a linux user, that linux is just a kernel but ended up browsing videos about installing bsd, and somehow they are just like how a plain arch or debian without a desktop environment and initially we have to do what we needed to do with arch and cli debian. So what the fuss, bsd users?

英语听力不好，有幻灯片降解太棒了

On real hardware, freeBSD is booting slow, pkg repo are same very slow (more then 60 minutes to install it with KDE desktop enviroment and video driver), long time to load video driver on boot. It's OK from servers, ports are here for that. For a normal user, linux distro based on Debian or Arch are more polished and suitable.

macknife _ info, reference to Mac The Knife song by the one and only Louis?