Good video! One small note: freebsd-update only updates the system kernel. To update the packages you have to use "pkg update" and then "pkg upgrade". Maybe this helps one or the other.
I was, before retirement, a linux system administrator with over 20 years experience. But with microsoft sniffing around the periphery of Linux probably looking to assimilate , I believe it will not be long before microsoft "patents" start appearing in Linux (with all the obvious consequences). I have been considering moving to BSD for some time, this was the spur needed to begin investigation. Thank you.
I learned most of what I know about UNIX concepts on FreeBSD and have preferred it over Linux for decades. I use FreeBSD to host a game server for an old game, "Hidden and Dangerous II", that I still play online. The game server runs under WINE. I use it because a VPS with Windows costs $30 a month, with $20 of it going to the Windows license, while an equivalent Linux VPS costs $10 a month. I would just use Linux+WINE, but for some reason that I could never suss out, the game server would not accept connections while running under Linux.
the main selling point of freebsd for me is the full integration of ZFS, meaning it even your root filesystem is using ZFS (zfs support in ubuntu, for example is still experimental).
Thank you so much for this video. I have recently inherited an iMac G5 and was looking at installing Linux on it as the OS X that will run on it would be inadequate for my purposes. I realised that Power PC architecture is really no longer supported in Linux and when I saw the download page in your video I was suddenly very happy. I will be using your video tomorrow to install Free BSD on the iMac. Again, thank you so much for this video and I am now a subscriber to your channel.
I have read from several online article it lacks security due to few developer maintaining large code. If few developer are looking at the code means few bugs unlike Linux. The codes which were found after being reported they took more than a year to fix and when fixed they were not pushed to existing user. Another issue affecting bds is funding company that supported it withdrew.
I would say DragonFly over NetBSD. Dragonfly focuses on server performance, NetBSD focuses on running everywhere and development is not as active as it should be for a healthy and well maintained os.Running everywhere does have its uses but not too many.
I'd argue on the main difference being a fully OS. While that is true, to me, the biggest difference is (as you were mentioning BSD is not another Linux Distri) that BSD has a different Kernel which is fully POSIX compatible. (bought all in all just a minor detail :)) keep on going, Ermanno!
Thanks!! I am using FreeBSD since the first time when version 1.5 came out :) It has pro and cons - but it has a character... like the other BSD's :) I am using it at home and on the server's at the institute, where I am an admin. It runs very nice... So, thanks again for the video :)
I like what I see here, another masterclass from the master. I won't be moving to FreeBSD anytime soon though but this looks great, if I had another pc to play with I would put on bare metal.
The video is very straightforward and well done. I also understand the differences from from Linux as you stated in the video. I am looking forward to the video about general user experience from day to day use. I suspect that it does not really feel too different from a stable release linux distro while working.
Thanks for the useful video. How do you remember the names of the packages to install such as xorg (and not Xorg or xorg-something). I always get stuck at the pkg part of freebsd. I don' t really get their pkg system, ports, searching for package names, etc. I can always follow a guide such as yours and get it installed but that is not as satisfying. But then again, I have never invested enough time to learn about their ports system. Apparently it is said to be similar to arch's but I don't really get the similarity in usage. Their rc system is simple and something I really like.... reminds me of my Slackware days.
Been big on FreeBSD for many years. umm. 5.1 - RELEASE, to be exact. I once had some elitist condescendingly snarky mock me "Why would YOU ever need FREEBSD?! What do you DO with it?! And the guy I was fixing to buy a server from in his shop laughed WITH the kid. I said "I'm a long time FreeBSD kernel dev team member." They both shut down. I bought my servers elsewhere. That business was put out of business by me competing against them and buying out their stock and talent. That kid was a careless sysadmin, it turns out...I was hired by his boss as a troublesohoter consultant to find "bottlenecks" - as they were bleeding customers. The kid had ran their entire business on a 32 bit WINDOWS server 2000 / virtuoso platform. They were burning up hard drives from disk swap space usage. The kid thought RAID 0 was the solution. I was allowed to point him to BURGER KING as a possible employer more befitting his skill set. Living in the land of FreeBSD CLI on a lightweight window manager as your daily workstation will prepare you to become a cave-dwelling greybeard guru in no time.
This post is kind of old, but I noticed your mouse is working. I opted to install xfce4. X is using the scfb and I am virtualizing the same way you are on a Debian 12 machine. Mice appear to be trivial to Xorg, so I don't think it didn't detect it. I see no mentioning of enabling the hal in the handbook just dbus. What are your thoughts?
This is a very good and helpful video. This really makes me want to switch to BSD. Also I wanted to know if you could make a review of Void Linux. It also has an AUR like system called xbps-src.
Amazing video Could you please make one explaining to us on detail all these System Hardening Options and why and how use them (or not)? Thanks in advance
Sir, just like other video the way you explain things is amazing, Please make a video on samba share setup in arch linux... And i hope like me many people want video on samba sharing process..
I've never used BSD, the most OS, other then Windows I used Linux Mint. If FreeBSD is a own OS, then there are no Viruses available for, right? Can you tell us more about the Memory requirements?
You can find all the info for system req here: docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-hardware.html - FreeBSD is quite light on resources :)
I installed FreeBSD in KVM, just like you do in the video. Everything is working as you showed but not the video driver. Which "Video Model" have you chosen in KVM? QXL, VGA, Virtio? I installed i3 without a login manager and only get 800x600. xf86-video-scfb is installed.
Make sure you have virtio in the kvm settings with acceleration enabled. I think I installed qxl, but I’m not sure though and now I don’t have the machine here with me... EDIT: sorry, I think I didn’t install anything else if it’s not in the video. Just make sure the kvm settings are correct.
Hi... Thanks for the tutorial. This question might be very silly. What did you click when you selected the option in System Configuration screen .. lets say to chose "ntpd". I went through the installer and could not find any keyboard key to select the option. Nothing worked... hence asking.. :)
@@eflinux Got it... i thought it might be very simple ..something like this.. i was able to move up and down, but not quite getting the right key to select/ un-select the option... thanks for helping !!
@@eflinux Ermano I fixed. I forgot To use the vboxmouse driver, adjust the mouse section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "vboxmouse" EndSection It is working now. :) Thanx, love your videos :)
This kind of operating system isn't made for people like you. Operating systems like this assume you have some time to spare to read a long manual. Take a look at some other operating systems that have simple installers and don't take as much time.
Dear Ermanno How can I tell sddm the keyboard layout DE. It has still EN. So difficult with passwords. And how can I tell SDDM that I want to start i3? Thank you very much!
Hi Dieter! So, for the keyboard you might want to look here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SDDM#SDDM_loads_only_US_keyboard_layout - As for i3, it should remember the last selection.
@@eflinux, Extremely stable...initially it was a project to learn Unix, the NSP I worked for was using BSD and Sun Solaris, and I needed to fast track into the Unix world...I was running on a AMD DX4-100 with 8MB ram and a 120MB HDD...
A BSD system with many network cards on a low consumption motherboard makes a better router than a majority of stuff on market and you can do redundancy for a cheaper cost. Now, if you try to explain that, this is another game.
Yep. My router for years was running FreeBSD. Before broadband, I used FreeBSD as a dialup ISP router. When broadband was available, I had two ethernet ports on my FreeBSD boxes; one to the cable modem and the other to my internal network. BSD is highly optimized for networking. It makes an excellent cheap router on an old PC. You have just as much granular control, redundancy and traffic shaping with FreeBSD as you do with a Cisco router. I also used my FreeBSD router as a VPN concentrator. When you want redundancy, just drop another NIC in and enable the appropriate protocols. Before I was put out to pasture, I would ssh tunnel into my FreeBSD router with VPN and "have fun." 😈😉
Any way to install on the iRST controller? i have Win10/7 dual booting on iRST (not AHCI) as one of my OSs has optane, but would like to make this a tri-boot and require that FreeBSD be installed while the BIOS is set to iRST. Is there a specific driver I need to slipstream into the FreeBSD installer before putting it on the thumb driver or anything? Using an Aorus Gaming 7 z370 board.
Hello EF - Tech Made Simple, can you please tell me what the O.S. What do you have installed on the computer that you see in the background of the video ?, and detail what distro it is, desktop, etc, thanks
@@eflinux Thank you very much for answering so quickly, do you have any video where you show the entire installation of your Arch? I would like to go a little deeper into Arch, thank you very much in advance.
Hey Ermanno. Nice video once again. Just when I am thinking of *BSD's. Here I am trying to use xfce. Do I need to edit same as you did in /usr/etc/X11/xorg.conf?
Hello Sir I have tried to install free BSD on metal. Wanna to have GNOME and it didn't boot to Gui. Tried in VM and everything works. I have followed BSD guide. Edited fstab, etc/rc.conf and no Gui yet. Tried on 5 year old dell laptop and mbp2012. Same no GUI. Don't it needs video driver to install exclusively. Please help Happy Merry Christmas
I don't understand why you say that freebsd is a complete system vs linux like ubuntu or linux mint? I have linux mint and after installation i have everything, kernel, packages, software and desktop.
The different is on Linux the kernel and packages are coming from different sources and converge in the distro while on FreeBSD everything is coming from one place only.
One does not install FreeBSD without a make install clean of robotfindskitten, fortune, figlet and cowsay. Ncurses based mp3blaster used to be mandatory for some reason.
Does anyone know how to get this front-end working on an old (circa 2012) amd-based laptop please (6400M\7400M + some gpu graphics chip)? I have followed this step by step (aside from choosing ZFS instead of UFS) but the nice, shiny login screen that EF gets doesn't appear :(. Thanks.
hey can you do an dual booting of pop-os with Windows 10 on an efi system ? I get stuck cause it needs an efi partition of 500mb whereas by defaults Windows efi is 100mb. So wanted to know how you can do it without losing any data thanks
I enabled the vbox services rc.conf and changed the mouse driver to virtualbox in the xorg config, the xorg config was causing issues, so I removed it, turns out that was the issue and xfce plus lightdm worked.
This is the first time I look how to install freebsd with good tutorial, keep up Sir 👍 I wonder, does FreeBsd Server also can get UI like this FreeBSD, I am a personal starting a startup company SAAS (Software As A Service) and I am planning using FreeBsd Server with some componen like: Server Node JS Database with PostgreSQL FrontEnd using Express or React JS
Cool! This is how we travel back in time 30 years ago... :) No wonder FreeBSD is not popular because it has no graphical installer. This was fine in MS DOS era, but this days installing manually by hand in a console is revolute!
To be honest the installer doesn’t bother me as long as the system is good. Installing from the console is something I’m used to in Arch, although there I can control from the start every single aspect of the system.
@@eflinux well there are still few of you for who a manual console mode installer poses no problem, this is why distros like Manjaro is gaining more and more ground. Personally I don't want to spend half a day typing install commands when a graphical installer does it in 3 clicks and 5 minutes!
Good video!
One small note: freebsd-update only updates the system kernel. To update the packages you have to use "pkg update" and then "pkg upgrade".
Maybe this helps one or the other.
Thanks! Yes, in the more in depth video about FreeBSD I went over that as well.
I was able to install freeBSD and get it working because of this video. This is my first foray into the world of BSD.
Glad it was helpful!
Well done.
Really interesting video.
Nice to see FreeBSD getting some love!
Great video! I've been a FreeBSD user since it was 386BSD. Super reliable, secure, and easy to use.
Wow BSD used to cost 386? I'm glad it's free, now. /j
I was, before retirement, a linux system administrator with over 20 years experience. But with microsoft sniffing around the periphery of Linux probably looking to assimilate , I believe it will not be long before microsoft "patents" start appearing in Linux (with all the obvious consequences). I have been considering moving to BSD for some time, this was the spur needed to begin investigation. Thank you.
Let me know how you like it!
I learned most of what I know about UNIX concepts on FreeBSD and have preferred it over Linux for decades. I use FreeBSD to host a game server for an old game, "Hidden and Dangerous II", that I still play online. The game server runs under WINE. I use it because a VPS with Windows costs $30 a month, with $20 of it going to the Windows license, while an equivalent Linux VPS costs $10 a month. I would just use Linux+WINE, but for some reason that I could never suss out, the game server would not accept connections while running under Linux.
Thanks for sharing this!
the main selling point of freebsd for me is the full integration of ZFS, meaning it even your root filesystem is using ZFS (zfs support in ubuntu, for example is still experimental).
Very good point.
Thank you so much for this video. I have recently inherited an iMac G5 and was looking at installing Linux on it as the OS X that will run on it would be inadequate for my purposes. I realised that Power PC architecture is really no longer supported in Linux and when I saw the download page in your video I was suddenly very happy. I will be using your video tomorrow to install Free BSD on the iMac. Again, thank you so much for this video and I am now a subscriber to your channel.
Thanks for the feedback and for subscribing! Let me know how the installation goes!
I've been intrigued by FreeBSD! Great video and great channel!
what linux would you recommend for VPS web hosting?
Again, a very helpful video that covers the nitty-gritty of what you have to know. Thanks!
Great video. Very clear and straight-forward walkthrough to install. Thank you, Ermanno.
My pleasure!
I have read from several online article it lacks security due to few developer maintaining large code. If few developer are looking at the code means few bugs unlike Linux. The codes which were found after being reported they took more than a year to fix and when fixed they were not pushed to existing user. Another issue affecting bds is funding company that supported it withdrew.
I haven't even watched the full video but I am sure it is gonna be awesome as always
Hope you can watch it later :)
@@eflinux I am watching right now
Please, make NetBSD Installation & First Look Too.
I’ll look into it:)
I would say DragonFly over NetBSD. Dragonfly focuses on server performance, NetBSD focuses on running everywhere and development is not as active as it should be for a healthy and well maintained os.Running everywhere does have its uses but not too many.
I'd argue on the main difference being a fully OS. While that is true, to me, the biggest difference is (as you were mentioning BSD is not another Linux Distri) that BSD has a different Kernel which is fully POSIX compatible. (bought all in all just a minor detail :)) keep on going, Ermanno!
Man. That UI is properly beautiful.
Thanks!! I am using FreeBSD since the first time when version 1.5 came out :) It has pro and cons - but it has a character... like the other BSD's :) I am using it at home and on the server's at the institute, where I am an admin. It runs very nice... So, thanks again for the video :)
You’re welcome! Glad you liked it!
I like what I see here, another masterclass from the master. I won't be moving to FreeBSD anytime soon though but this looks great, if I had another pc to play with I would put on bare metal.
Too kind :)
I see an opportunity to justify the purchase of new pc...
The video is very straightforward and well done. I also understand the differences from from Linux as you stated in the video. I am looking forward to the video about general user experience from day to day use. I suspect that it does not really feel too different from a stable release linux distro while working.
Thanks for the feedback! The second video is already online.
I’m still on 11:55 but i needed to jump in comments and say well done with the awesome explanations and couldn’t resist myself not to :)
Thanks:)
i know PS4 OS runs freeBSD at its core but,how does steam perform on this os on pc?
That’s a good question. This being a first look I didn’t try steam so I can’t really answer to that.
Looking forward for Alpine linux installation tutorial.
Thanks for the useful video. How do you remember the names of the packages to install such as xorg (and not Xorg or xorg-something). I always get stuck at the pkg part of freebsd. I don' t really get their pkg system, ports, searching for package names, etc. I can always follow a guide such as yours and get it installed but that is not as satisfying. But then again, I have never invested enough time to learn about their ports system. Apparently it is said to be similar to arch's but I don't really get the similarity in usage. Their rc system is simple and something I really like.... reminds me of my Slackware days.
Amazing video! Is there a pkg update/upgrade?
There is, you can see in the video freebsd-update fetch and then install.
long time ago I used it for about 8 months as main and only OS, it was about 2004-6(version 8 I think). I may retry it one of this days.
Been big on FreeBSD for many years. umm. 5.1 - RELEASE, to be exact. I once had some elitist condescendingly snarky mock me "Why would YOU ever need FREEBSD?! What do you DO with it?! And the guy I was fixing to buy a server from in his shop laughed WITH the kid. I said "I'm a long time FreeBSD kernel dev team member." They both shut down. I bought my servers elsewhere. That business was put out of business by me competing against them and buying out their stock and talent. That kid was a careless sysadmin, it turns out...I was hired by his boss as a troublesohoter consultant to find "bottlenecks" - as they were bleeding customers. The kid had ran their entire business on a 32 bit WINDOWS server 2000 / virtuoso platform. They were burning up hard drives from disk swap space usage. The kid thought RAID 0 was the solution. I was allowed to point him to BURGER KING as a possible employer more befitting his skill set. Living in the land of FreeBSD CLI on a lightweight window manager as your daily workstation will prepare you to become a cave-dwelling greybeard guru in no time.
Is FreeBSD like an LTS Release or Rolling release OS?
Great video btw
Thanks! This is an own OS, the packages versions, at least on KDE are more of a LTS release.
Nice tutorial. Thank you. Looking forward for more.
Thank you. I didn’t know you can really install an operating system from scratch 😂 and FreeBSD looks really promising
This post is kind of old, but I noticed your mouse is working. I opted to install xfce4. X is using the scfb and I am virtualizing the same way you are on a Debian 12 machine. Mice appear to be trivial to Xorg, so I don't think it didn't detect it. I see no mentioning of enabling the hal in the handbook just dbus. What are your thoughts?
I actually like openbsd for the principles, but due to the packages and tech in freebsd, I have to use that.
Like the variety - Freebsd is a nice OS
It is indeed! A different approach, but nevertheless wry interesting.
At 4:29, how did you select Ports option? what key binding?
Space-bar I think.
This is a very good and helpful video. This really makes me want to switch to BSD. Also I wanted to know if you could make a review of Void Linux. It also has an AUR like system called xbps-src.
Thanks for the feedback! I will do void in the future, can’t say when though.
When Ermanno hits the enter key he doesn't mess around!
Hay Sr I have a problem when I install powerline with zsh on my terminal urxvt the icon does not display I think the problem is in fonts
You might have to look if the font awesome and other fonts are available.
Amazing video
Could you please make one explaining to us on detail all these System Hardening Options and why and how use them (or not)? Thanks in advance
Sir, just like other video the way you explain things is amazing,
Please make a video on samba share setup in arch linux...
And i hope like me many people want video on samba sharing process..
Thank you! I will cover Samba. It’s on the list.
I've never used BSD, the most OS, other then Windows I used Linux Mint. If FreeBSD is a own OS, then there are no Viruses available for, right? Can you tell us more about the Memory requirements?
You can find all the info for system req here: docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-hardware.html - FreeBSD is quite light on resources :)
@@eflinux That is why I'm considering jumping ship, resource usage. I'm going to test. Thanks for the great vids!
I installed FreeBSD in KVM, just like you do in the video. Everything is working as you showed but not the video driver. Which "Video Model" have you chosen in KVM? QXL, VGA, Virtio? I installed i3 without a login manager and only get 800x600. xf86-video-scfb is installed.
Make sure you have virtio in the kvm settings with acceleration enabled. I think I installed qxl, but I’m not sure though and now I don’t have the machine here with me... EDIT: sorry, I think I didn’t install anything else if it’s not in the video. Just make sure the kvm settings are correct.
Is it possible to dual boot with windows? Can u make a tutorial of it if it's possible?
I guess so, but eventually, I'll do a tutorial for that :)
Nice 🤗
Hi... Thanks for the tutorial.
This question might be very silly. What did you click when you selected the option in System Configuration screen .. lets say to chose "ntpd". I went through the installer and could not find any keyboard key to select the option. Nothing worked... hence asking.. :)
I hope I understood your question correctly, you can select the options with the spacebar and move with the arrows.
@@eflinux Got it... i thought it might be very simple ..something like this.. i was able to move up and down, but not quite getting the right key to select/ un-select the option... thanks for helping !!
When I install it my mouse does't work, on KDE and XFCe. :/
Did you enable moused during the installation?
@@eflinux Ermano I fixed. I forgot
To use the vboxmouse driver, adjust the mouse section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "vboxmouse"
EndSection
It is working now. :) Thanx, love your videos :)
@@eflinux I was using vbox , not KVM :)
Oh I see. Glad you sorted it out!
Great job not really the most user friendly os but you gave so much information
There is a BSD that is user-friendly like Ubuntu, though.
@@sephangelo4603 ubuntu is not bsd
Does freebsd supporting Nvidia Graphic Cards?
Yes, this might help you out: docs.freebsd.org/doc/7.3-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/en/articles/compiz-fusion/nvidia-setup.html
Your videos never get any dislikes. The reason is obvious :)
Thanks! They do get dislikes sometime and that’s fine too. It’s always personal preference :)
Just found out your channel. Excellent job Ermanno. Ciao
Grazie Andrea!
Too many options to do to Install a single operative system. The Installation it´s a process only for persons with engineering degree.
This kind of operating system isn't made for people like you. Operating systems like this assume you have some time to spare to read a long manual. Take a look at some other operating systems that have simple installers and don't take as much time.
Once you get it installed, it's worth it.
ever heard of arch
@@anunayy or gentoo.
@@anunayy arch really isnt hard to install if you go slow and rtfm
Dear Ermanno
How can I tell sddm the keyboard layout DE. It has still EN. So difficult with passwords.
And how can I tell SDDM that I want to start i3?
Thank you very much!
Hi Dieter! So, for the keyboard you might want to look here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SDDM#SDDM_loads_only_US_keyboard_layout - As for i3, it should remember the last selection.
Is there a BSD desktop environment or does it all just recompile Linux ones?
Can show one video about How to set-up qemu and then freebsd, I tried qemu but it's not installing properly
Do freeBSD have illustrator app ?
I can't really say as I don't usually use that software.
I've been using FreeBSD for over 20yrs...my first server was in 1997, and when I finally shut it down, had an uptime of 2 1/2yrs...
Wooow! That is stability :)
@@eflinux, Extremely stable...initially it was a project to learn Unix, the NSP I worked for was using BSD and Sun Solaris, and I needed to fast track into the Unix world...I was running on a AMD DX4-100 with 8MB ram and a 120MB HDD...
Amazing.
A BSD system with many network cards on a low consumption motherboard makes a better router than a majority of stuff on market and you can do redundancy for a cheaper cost. Now, if you try to explain that, this is another game.
Yep. My router for years was running FreeBSD. Before broadband, I used FreeBSD as a dialup ISP router. When broadband was available, I had two ethernet ports on my FreeBSD boxes; one to the cable modem and the other to my internal network. BSD is highly optimized for networking. It makes an excellent cheap router on an old PC. You have just as much granular control, redundancy and traffic shaping with FreeBSD as you do with a Cisco router. I also used my FreeBSD router as a VPN concentrator. When you want redundancy, just drop another NIC in and enable the appropriate protocols. Before I was put out to pasture, I would ssh tunnel into my FreeBSD router with VPN and "have fun." 😈😉
Any way to install on the iRST controller? i have Win10/7 dual booting on iRST (not AHCI) as one of my OSs has optane, but would like to make this a tri-boot and require that FreeBSD be installed while the BIOS is set to iRST. Is there a specific driver I need to slipstream into the FreeBSD installer before putting it on the thumb driver or anything? Using an Aorus Gaming 7 z370 board.
TBH I have no idea, as I don't have one of those. Best bet is to browse the FreeBSD forums.
is it possible to install FreeBSD while set to iRST instead of AHCI? If so, how might I do so? :) z370 mobo...
I'm not sure, I haven't tried that.
Beatifull wallpaper, where can I download it?
Can all Linux programs be installed?
Most of them I'd say.
@@eflinux Thank you. I will move from Linux to UNIX
Hello EF - Tech Made Simple, can you please tell me what the O.S. What do you have installed on the computer that you see in the background of the video ?, and detail what distro it is, desktop, etc, thanks
Hi! Sure! I did a video about that here: ruclips.net/video/OLgkgheNi7M/видео.html
@@eflinux Thank you very much for answering so quickly, do you have any video where you show the entire installation of your Arch? I would like to go a little deeper into Arch, thank you very much in advance.
Not of my pc specifically, but there are many installs of Arch here on the channel.
@@eflinux oki, thank you
As Always, good video and you explain very well.
Thanks!
Help at the visudo file. I don't know how to use that text editor. Can you help me?
It uses mostly the same commands as vim. If you need to save and exit type :wq
How about to edit that file?
Vim has always seemed to be much more than I need😊
"I" to enter insert mode. Then edit the text. Exit insert mode with the escape key and save and exit.
Hey Ermanno. Nice video once again. Just when I am thinking of *BSD's.
Here I am trying to use xfce. Do I need to edit same as you did in /usr/etc/X11/xorg.conf?
You might want to have a look here for the xfce instructions: www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x11-wm.html
First Off, thank you for the great videos. I enjoy your channel. I Have a question, what is the make and model of your Nice monitor??
Hey thanks! It was a Dell. I’m saying was because it broke down a few months ago. Now I have an LG.
Best OS ever.
One day I will definitely migrate to FreeBSD!
what is the command to save in the terminal and exit
??
How did free bsd feel compared to arch?
It’s somewhat faster, but you won’t find every package you find in Arch.
@@eflinux
See I need Linux just for browsing, and school(zoom app)...So now please tell me what is best for me
Stay with Arch ;)
Hello Sir
I have tried to install free BSD on metal.
Wanna to have GNOME and it didn't boot to Gui. Tried in VM and everything works.
I have followed BSD guide. Edited fstab, etc/rc.conf and no Gui yet. Tried on 5 year old dell laptop and mbp2012. Same no GUI.
Don't it needs video driver to install exclusively. Please help
Happy Merry Christmas
Yes, surely an issue with graphics driver. I'd try to look in the wiki and look for the appropriate driver for your card.
ty, how many ressources memory are use ? htop exemple pls.
ty
I must have missed something. My virtual machine didn't bring up sddm after reboot. It went back to the terminal.
Hi Cory, probably forgot to activate sddm in the rc.conf file.
@@eflinux sddm_enable="YES"
Are you installing this in a VM? It sounds like it's a video driver issue.
@@eflinux I found my problem. My mistake to choose scfb for the video driver. I just choose Vesa. Started fine. Still a very nice tutorial!
I should have mentioned scfb is working for the VM, but other drivers might be necessary for installs. Thanks for pointing this out!
I did everything to a T and when it reboots it just brings me to a root command and doesnt start kde :(
It is probably a graphics driver issue. Your best bet is to look in the wiki for your model and see what drivers you need.
Hi ermanno
I have the plasma screen but can't login. Also how do I change the screen resolution?
Hi Leigh, what do you mean by plasma screen?
@@eflinux I have freesb running I get to the login in kde but can't log in
So you see SDDM and then what happens? Black screen? If so, you might have to change the video driver in xorg.
@@eflinux how do I do that once its installed
You can try opening a new tty with alt+ctrl+f1 or f2.
Ghost BSD is worth of a look.
Thanks! I will!
I don't understand why you say that freebsd is a complete system vs linux like ubuntu or linux mint?
I have linux mint and after installation i have everything, kernel, packages, software and desktop.
The different is on Linux the kernel and packages are coming from different sources and converge in the distro while on FreeBSD everything is coming from one place only.
what is linux in the background?
It is Arch Linux with KDE.
@@eflinux Normal KDE or Theme? please link for you theme
KDE with Materia theme and Papirus Icon theme.
@@eflinux Thanks!
I wonder if flatpak works on Unix... Or AppImage...
I didn't try that yet :)
I am gonna install freebsd with dwm instead of kde.wish me luck😍
Uh let me know how it goes!
@@eflinux sure. I will give update here 😇
@@mmmt
Where is the update >:(
@@mmmt Where is the update >:(
Is it compatible with macOS?
FreeBSD is an operating system, like macOS. You can install eventually on a VM.
Hi sir may you tell me can I install chromium browser on FreeBSD ?
You'll have to build it from source according to this: wiki.freebsd.org/Chromium
What Is The VM You Using
KVM
Is It Available For Windows?
Linux only.
@@eflinux well, i guess i install it in my vm, is it available for all linux distros (including opensuse?)
Yes, it is.
Uh not a arch linux Video i'm suprise hehe well great Job again on another linux System.
Oh there’s more about Arch, be sure :). Sometimes it’s nice to try out something else and compare :)
One does not install FreeBSD without a make install clean of robotfindskitten, fortune, figlet and cowsay. Ncurses based mp3blaster used to be mandatory for some reason.
You explained the details really well.
Thanks!
freebsd looks like a very security oriented by design
It does indeed feel very compact.
Whats your main system running on
Arch Linux.
@@eflinux do u advised a medium experience person to use it as main os or should move to a open or freedsb or stay on ubuntu 20.04
It depends how comfortable you are with the terminal, as a lot of Arch maintenance is done there.
Does anyone know how to get this front-end working on an old (circa 2012) amd-based laptop please (6400M\7400M + some gpu graphics chip)? I have followed this step by step (aside from choosing ZFS instead of UFS) but the nice, shiny login screen that EF gets doesn't appear :(. Thanks.
Hi, most likely a video driver issue. I suggest you try and search the freebsd forums for your specific machine.
hey can you do an dual booting of pop-os with Windows 10 on an efi system ? I get stuck cause it needs an efi partition of 500mb whereas by defaults Windows efi is 100mb. So wanted to know how you can do it without losing any data
thanks
I’ll look into it. The 100mb Windows EFI partition can be a pain.
@@eflinux yes please , that's why I wanted to know how you would extend the efi partition.
thanks in advance buddy!
nice video thx for sharing,
can you share the link to your wallpaper too
thx
Hi Brenda! Thanks! Sure, here is the link: drive.google.com/file/d/1SEcBsL5QEg8Qdq_IXPIVAWeAzXasxzg6/view?usp=sharing
@@eflinux thx , amazing picture & great person
Thanks Brenda! Very of you!
Why is it using things that made for GNU/Linux Like sudo commands or KDE Plasma ?
Those are not made only for Linux but for the FOSS community, and they are FOSS, just like FreeBSD.
I tried to install FreeBSD on an old Gateway for the first time, but the PC failed. Nevertheless, FreeBSD was fairly easy to install.
FreeBSD mirrors are very slow for me, it takes 30 minutes to install xorg, can I change the mirrors to a faster one?
The pkg servers are geo-mirrored, so you should already be using the closest official mirror. It might be a temporary issue.
I finally got FreeBSD with xfce installed in virtualbox after 3 hours because of slow mirrors and some troubleshooting.
What did you do?
I enabled the vbox services rc.conf and changed the mouse driver to virtualbox in the xorg config, the xorg config was causing issues, so I removed it, turns out that was the issue and xfce plus lightdm worked.
Thanks for sharing!
FreeBSD uses a microkernel and Linux distributions uses monolithic kernel. I think this is the main difference, no?
Yes, is one of the differences.
The install keeps failing saying device and display could not be found...anything needs to be configured
Are you installing on a VM?
@@eflinux yes..virt manager....only difference is that I used the freebsd 13 installer..xorg fails saying no screens found
Did you change the video driver to scfb?
@@eflinux yes I did...I also tried with the intel drivers and setting the i915 options...the issue is the same with everything...no screens found...
Did you try the vesa driver?
This is the first time I look how to install freebsd with good tutorial, keep up Sir 👍
I wonder, does FreeBsd Server also can get UI like this FreeBSD,
I am a personal starting a startup company SAAS (Software As A Service) and I am planning using FreeBsd Server with some componen like:
Server Node JS
Database with PostgreSQL
FrontEnd using Express or React JS
Very interesting! What makes you choose FreeBSD?
Cool! This is how we travel back in time 30 years ago... :)
No wonder FreeBSD is not popular because it has no graphical installer.
This was fine in MS DOS era, but this days installing manually by hand in a console is revolute!
To be honest the installer doesn’t bother me as long as the system is good. Installing from the console is something I’m used to in Arch, although there I can control from the start every single aspect of the system.
@@eflinux well there are still few of you for who a manual console mode installer poses no problem, this is why distros like Manjaro is gaining more and more ground. Personally I don't want to spend half a day typing install commands when a graphical installer does it in 3 clicks and 5 minutes!
Of course! Fully understandable, and that's actually perfect for the majority of users.
...there is GUI installer with FreeBSD = ghostbsd.org/about
Can i install on raspberry pi 4?
Is it possible to install on machin directly?
Can't say on the Raspberry pi, but it should work ona laptop.
Freebsd work on any platform. I think on arm (pi) too
Bravo Ermanno. Molto interessante.
Grazie mille!
Bro ....your terminal font size needs to be bigger for demo purposes.
My first freeBSD 3.4. in my portable have freeBSD Unix 12.0. also have debian. And 3 iMac. Little c y pfc, with sdl. Better hp-ux Unix.
so why do you have tux the Linux logo mascot on the cover of FreeBSD ??
edit the cover and replace tux with beastie , the FreeBSD logo mascot. lol
One way you're right! But this is a Linux channel, so that's why it's there.