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This is nice. Couple of days ago I published 80 pages work describing my experience installing FreeBSD on Lenovo Ideapad 3 Gaming laptop and making it to work.

by ruslan 4y ago

This is nice. Couple of days ago I published 80 pages work describing my experience installing FreeBSD on Lenovo Ideapad 3 Gaming laptop and making it to work. The article is in Russian, but I think it can be easily read through Google Translate, here's the link: https://habr-com.translate.goog/en/post/683702/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://habr-com.translate.goog/en/post/683702/?_x_tr_sl=ru&... My experience was pretty similar to that of the owner of Framework laptop, except some extra topics: headless NVIDIA GPU, Touchpad issues, bootloader hangs.

phist_mcgee 4y ago
Did you really write all of those pages by hand?? It appears incredibly comprehensive. Did you write it just for fun?
- ruslan 4y ago
  Yes, I wrote it just for fun. It was a kind of challenge for me, both resolving issues and describing them in detail to let new people in town learn how issues can be resolved. Last time I wrote anything that long was my diploma thesis 20+ years go. :-) This work took me nearly four months to accomplish.
  - jayp1418 4y ago
    Cool. Let us know if you write one about NetBSD :)
    - ruslan 4y ago
      Sure. ;)
  - phist_mcgee 4y ago
    It was a really interesting read, we need more long form guides like this - it takes a lot of work but this is the kind of resource I would love to read getting setup.
    - ruslan 4y ago
      Thanks. I consider describing my experience using CADs on FreeBSD (KiCAD, FreeCAD), as this is my work at the moment. Though, this won't differ much from using same on Linux. :)
kaszanka 4y ago
I'll definitely come back to this if I ever install FreeBSD. I found one small issue: -rwxr-sr-x 1 games games 1713664 Jul 9 17:01 /usr/local/share/nethack33/nethack33* -rwxr-sr-x 1 games games 19744 Jul 9 17:01 /usr/local/share/nethack33/recover* Here it's actually the SGID attribute that is set, not SUID.
- ruslan 4y ago
  Yes, of course. Fixed. Thanks for noticing.
nortonham 4y ago
I read your article (the English translation). Very nice work. I did have a question, more about the translation, since I don't know any Russian (besides a couple of simple words). What is meant by: "many fryukhovovod and linukhovod"? How does that translate to English?
- ruslan 4y ago
  Ahaha... Poor Google. "Фрюховод", which Google translated as "fryukhovod", means a guy who raises and pets FreeBSD systems. Like cattleman is a man who raises and breeds cattle. It's gentle form. Same way "линуховод" (linukhovod) is a guy who raises Linux systems. Both are well-known jargon words circulating in sysadmin/programming community. :-) So, the whole phrase your are referring to, can be translated as: "so, many FreeBSD and Linux adepts advise AMD GPU as an alternative".
  - nortonham 4y ago
    haha...I thought it could be something like that. Seeing "linukhovod" made me think it was something linux related. I guess breeding and raising linux/bsd systems is kind of what sysadmins do. Thanks for the response.
    - ruslan 4y ago
      Exactly! :) Does anybody know any service or a decent way to convert Google Translate pages to some editable format ? I would like to save that translation just in case I could find time to polish and publish English version.

by ruslan 4y ago

phist_mcgee 4y ago

Did you really write all of those pages by hand?? It appears incredibly comprehensive. Did you write it just for fun?

ruslan 4y ago
Yes, I wrote it just for fun. It was a kind of challenge for me, both resolving issues and describing them in detail to let new people in town learn how issues can be resolved. Last time I wrote anything that long was my diploma thesis 20+ years go. :-) This work took me nearly four months to accomplish.
- jayp1418 4y ago
  Cool. Let us know if you write one about NetBSD :)
  - ruslan 4y ago
    Sure. ;)
- phist_mcgee 4y ago
  It was a really interesting read, we need more long form guides like this - it takes a lot of work but this is the kind of resource I would love to read getting setup.
  - ruslan 4y ago
    Thanks. I consider describing my experience using CADs on FreeBSD (KiCAD, FreeCAD), as this is my work at the moment. Though, this won't differ much from using same on Linux. :)

kaszanka 4y ago

I'll definitely come back to this if I ever install FreeBSD. I found one small issue: -rwxr-sr-x 1 games games 1713664 Jul 9 17:01 /usr/local/share/nethack33/nethack33* -rwxr-sr-x 1 games games 19744 Jul 9 17:01 /usr/local/share/nethack33/recover* Here it's actually the SGID attribute that is set, not SUID.

ruslan 4y ago
Yes, of course. Fixed. Thanks for noticing.

nortonham 4y ago

I read your article (the English translation). Very nice work. I did have a question, more about the translation, since I don't know any Russian (besides a couple of simple words). What is meant by: "many fryukhovovod and linukhovod"? How does that translate to English?

ruslan 4y ago
Ahaha... Poor Google. "Фрюховод", which Google translated as "fryukhovod", means a guy who raises and pets FreeBSD systems. Like cattleman is a man who raises and breeds cattle. It's gentle form. Same way "линуховод" (linukhovod) is a guy who raises Linux systems. Both are well-known jargon words circulating in sysadmin/programming community. :-) So, the whole phrase your are referring to, can be translated as: "so, many FreeBSD and Linux adepts advise AMD GPU as an alternative".
- nortonham 4y ago
  haha...I thought it could be something like that. Seeing "linukhovod" made me think it was something linux related. I guess breeding and raising linux/bsd systems is kind of what sysadmins do. Thanks for the response.
  - ruslan 4y ago
    Exactly! :) Does anybody know any service or a decent way to convert Google Translate pages to some editable format ? I would like to save that translation just in case I could find time to polish and publish English version.