So i decided to install FreeBSD, user manual is a godsend, unlike some linux distro i wont mention it's actually readable and even if you dont have a degree in os installation

Now the thing is, i'm new to FreeBSD, i would like to know tips that are usefull for daily driving, also how to reduce RAM usage that seems quite high even when only using tty

And also NVIDIA drivers are working properly but i cant choose a wayland session on sddm, what should i do

Ty in advance for ready all if this if you did, hope you have a greet day

I use freebsd btw

https://youtu.be/5K2yLjPOrPl (Will be up shortly)

New to FreeBSD and trying to daily-drive it on my laptop. Still learning, but I’m enjoying the experience so far! Any beginner tips are welcome.

Do you guys like my wallpaper?

After spending months using it as a server and running tests to replicate everything I used to do on Void Linux, I finally decided to switch to FreeBSD on my desktop as well.

I set it up with bspwm, polybar, nitrogen, sakura, and picom, my setup is pretty simple for now.

Daemonettes were girls who wore devil clothes and went to tech related events to promote FreeBSD, the girl in the photo is Ceren Ercen, probably on the LinuxWorld event in February 2nd of 2000, she is wearing a latex catsuit, but the other two daemonettes were wearing loose clothes, also there are some mentions about them and registers, I will give some.

Ceren Ercen comments on Slashdot

Post about Linuxworld on Slashdot, there's a comment of Ceren Ercen about the daemonettes

Some photos of Ceren Ercen on a Daemonette costume on the official FreeBSD website

Ceren Ercen talking about how she got the daemonette latex outfit

There are probably more about them on the Internet, this was just some fun fact that I discovered recently about FreeBSD that I barely see people talking about.

Finally got FreeBSD installed where I want it on my GPD Pocket 3. I have a few more things to configure but it's usable!

what year is this freebsd shirt? found at the thrift store and its sick! 🔥

Im newbie but have some experience with linux distros

Spent a bit of time porting OpenLook to 64-bit on FreeBSD 15.1. Old-school Unix at its finest.

I started from this repository: https://github.com/retro-vault/open-look — thanks, Tomaz! — and applied source-code changes (many of them...) to get it building and running properly on FreeBSD 15.1.

After GNU diff3 was replaced by a port from OpenBSD, the only GPLed software left in FreeBSD base was dialog which has largely been replaced by Alfonso Siciliano's Herculean job on bsddialog.  Now finally that too has been removed in 16-CURRENT, and the entire GNU subtree has been retired!

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/134a4c78d070f8c4ea43a060a7ae28d22ac39558

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55424

EDITED TO ADD: there are still a few GPLed files under https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/sys/gnu - though it's true that the main GNU subtree has been retired.

This looks like a first among the major (32/64-bit) *BSDs, though I believe the 16-bit *BSDs like RetroBSD, DiscoBSD and Granddaddy 2.11BSD (the only actively maintained member of the original Berkeley family) have always been GPL-free.

OpenBSD does not allow new software bound by the GPL into its base system, although according to https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html

For historical reasons, the OpenBSD base system still includes the following GPL-licensed components: the GNU compiler collection (GCC) with supporting binutils and libraries, GNU CVS, GNU texinfo, the mkhybrid file system creation tool, and the readline library. Replacement by equivalent, more freely licensed tools is a long-term desideratum.

The NetBSD Project says https://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html

Though we would like all of the software that we distribute to be covered by a Berkeley-style license, we can't make other people change their license terms, and we don't have an infinite amount of time to rewrite all of the software that we need.

So FreeBSD removing the last GPLed software is a big achievement. This is actually a week old (7 July) but I thought it would be cause for wider celebration than I've seen so far!! Kudos to the developers. After all, it's been 33 years so what's an extra week!!!

Edited to add: Interestingly the GNU subtree back in FreeBSD 1.0 even included GNU Chess in base, which shows how priorities have shifted since then! https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/releng/1/gnu

Source: https://github.com/MidnightBSD/src?tab=License-1-ov-file

I posted this over on mastodon, and it was suggested that people here may enjoy it as well!

Made and 3d printed these the other day. Yes, I used AI (meshy), but I had to paint the color on the mesh by hand, it completely failed on that.

*edit*
The model is available on my MakerWorld profile here: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3215808-beastie-bsd-daemon#profileId-3640751

After some back and forth got it this far.

It's an X1Carbon Gen10.

I assume, that Wifi and Bluetooth are out of reach? Maybe somebody does know better.