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BSD Hardware Database
- andarleen 6y agoVery disappointed by BSDs and FreeBSD in particular. The other day I wanted to build a pihole set-up using it - do you think it works seamlessly with raspberry pi? It doesn't. Wanted to install it on my UEFI bios - have to take more steps than I should. Wanted to run it on an nvidia jetson i have lying around. Good luck with that! Basically it only works with very common or old hardware. A shame really. I don't want to sound entitled, would have been happy to allocate time to build eyecandy apps to make it more suitable for a desktop (had an app included in the ports tree in the past), but I simply can't without spending too much time to even make it work. I wish this would change, as FreeBSD is my first "love", and for good reason - it's tidy and logically organised.
- metalliqaz 6y agorpi and many other boards use proprietary drivers that are not open to the community. the hardware vendor makes a Linux blob and that's it. What can FreeBSD do about it?
- andarleen 6y ago> What can FreeBSD do about it? That's a good question, and I don't have a clue. I know my comment sounds a bit entitled, because now that I think of it FreeBSD has provided that platform for vendors and the wider community to port drivers, or reverse engineer where possible. If i could do it I would do it myself, but I lack the skill and time. So i'll rephrase my statement: s/Very disappointed by BSDs and FreeBSD in particular/Very disappointed that vendors do not provide better hardware support for BSDs and FreeBSD in particular/. It really is a shame that such a great OS doesn't have wider support and adoption.
- numpad0 6y agoNDISwrapper
- upofadown 6y ago>...FreeBSD in particular. Which other BSDs did you try?
- andarleen 6y agoTried NetBSD and OpenBSD in the past, and had worse issues in terms of compatibility. However, I had to rephrase my comment based on someone else's comment, and based on the realization that it's not FreeBSD and BSDs at fault: s/Very disappointed by BSDs and FreeBSD in particular/Very disappointed that vendors do not provide better hardware support for BSDs and FreeBSD in particular/
- liveoneggs 6y agoNetBSD supports those boards, iirc
- GeorgeTirebiter 6y agoIndeed it does, and I've been running RPi3B+ / NetBSD for years successfully. Try it!
- 1over137 6y agoIf you're wanting to use FreeBSD for something pihole-like, check out pfsense and pfBlockerNG.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoWell... you could have tried https://www.invisible.ca/arm/ https://www.invisible.ca/arm/ and https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/ https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/ along with https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/ https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoBSD "distro"? Really?
- tyingq 6y agoThe D in BSD is...distribution.
- jbverschoor 6y agoBut there's only one distribution. Though dragonfly is a fork, it's not a redistribution.. or is it? But "Linux" is just a kernel.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago> But there's only one distribution. No, there are BSD distros, like nomad BSD or ghost BSD, but not all BSDs are distros, unlike Linux distros. > Though dragonfly is a fork, it's not a redistribution.. or is it? Dragonfly is diverged enough to count as its own thing, I think.
- qubex 6y agoDragonFlyBSD is definitely it’s own seperate branch of the evolutionary tree.
- colejohnson66 6y agoI think they’re pointing out the duplication in “Berkeley Software Distribution disto/distribution”; similar to “ATM machine”, “PIN number”, “LCD display/screen”, etc.
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoNo I am not. I am saying that BSD world is not distro driven. You would not call Android or ChromeOS a Linux distro. The difference between BSDs is very serious, and they are not by any means distros. They are variants for sure, but not "distros".
- metalliqaz 6y agoThere are 33 computers in their database.
- laxd 6y agoand 33.000 on bsdstats.org. I guess this is a new and unrelated endeavour
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- drewg123 6y agoThese survey sites tend to miss large numbers of FreeBSD machines in use in corporate environs. Eg, Netflix Openconnect CDN and similar.
- samoa42 6y agoidk but wager to say there are maybe a couple of thousand OC machines worldwide. not really "large numbers". on other fronts i rekon that other infrastructure manufacturers are big on BSD (eg. dell/emc, juniper)
- drewg123 6y agoYes, openconnect was just one example that I know well because I work on it, and I know we don't report to these survey sites. If we did, we would make up a sizable percent of bsdstats.org, and over 99% of the BSD Hardware Database in the title. And I'm sure there are others (like your infrastructure manufacturers) that could say the same.
- nix23 6y agoHere's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_FreeBSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free... Some of it is outdated, like Whats-app
- iunternik 6y agoCan someone help me understand what's the difference works and detected?
- oneplane 6y agoDetected means you see a device at a certain port or address. Works means that after detection you can actually interact with the device and do things.
- snvzz 6y ago>https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe/blob/master/LICENSE What in the world were they thinking. This is now how you appeal to the BSD community.
- nix23 6y agoDamn! I already executed it, my system is tainted!
- snvzz 6y agoIt probably automatically uploaded details about your system online, before you could blink.
- na85 6y agoOne of the biggest turn-offs I have about BSD is the License zealotry that runs so rampant in that community.
- nix23 6y agoOh, even more than the zealotry of Linux and ZFS?
- dddddaviddddd 6y agoWhat is the difference between this and bsdstats.org ?