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Not a developer, and if I were I might find such a question puzzling. Here's why I use it: +zfs +(poudriere & /usr/ports) +(helpful mail lists) +bhyve !system
by downut 6y ago
Not a developer, and if I were I might find such a question puzzling. Here's why I use it:
+zfs +(poudriere & /usr/ports) +(helpful mail lists) +bhyve !systemd
FreeBSD since 1994, Debian since 1998.
But underneath it all is a philosophy about how to live your life. If you want Big Corps deciding your computational experience, good for you, even Linux can provide that for you now. I don't. I don't care if I'm irrelevant. I approach cooking, reading, travel, etc the same way. And there are ranges. OpenBSD goes even further. I respect that.
My partner lives in Big Corp IT land during the day and she loves the in house experience of our rather extravagent mostly FreeBSD "cloud". Some Debian in there too; got to run some appliances like unifi-video.
Writing this on a FreeBSD NVIDIA desktop. Which I'm going to use to do my own taxes myself, with org-mode, and I'm going to file here shortly. For that I need chromium, which works fine. Otherwise I use Firefox, which ports tracks releases quite closely.
All this unnecessary effort! Why would anyone do such a thing. Mysteries.
- toomanyducks 6y ago> FreeBSD NVIDIA desktop. Any links to guides/docs? My GPU is really the one reason I haven't yet at the very least tried FreeBSD on my desktop.
- my123 6y agoThe Nvidia binary driver is provided for FreeBSD too. Guide at http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/460.56/README/index.html http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/460.56/... and driver at https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/170806/en-us https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/170806/en... for the currently latest one.
- ashafer 6y agoI am biased but FreBSD is very well supported on NVIDIA, so I wouldn't let it hold you back from trying it out. I think you could load NomadBSD on a usb and have NVIDIA drivers set up without any real trouble.
- lmm 6y agoWhat do you need a guide for? You install the nvidia driver through the normal package manager and it works, same as on Linux.
- AndrewUnmuted 6y agoFreeBSD's ZFS implementation is really solid and if the integrity of your data cluster is a top priority, this is one area where it really pays dividends.
- downut 6y agoYeah, I run a raidz2 (I was young back when I built it ;-) and have replaced all but one of the drives at least once. Rock solid. And bhyve + zfs, that's really cool. More and more of my Debian (multiple version) appliances are small bhyve instances on my 32 thread 128 GB poudriere build box. Chrome and Firefox and a few rusty or haskelly things get in the queue and it do get a bit laggy... NBD.