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 [[https://cooltrainer.org/a-freebsd-11-desktop-howto/]]\\
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-FreeBSD is a great os. it can do everything. it is easy to use, manage and had a ton of apps avail.\\
+FreeBSD is a great general purpose OS. it can do everything. it is easy to use, manage and had a ton of apps avail.\\
-supports a lot of hardware, from raspberry-pi's to supercomputers, and because of its truely 'libre' license, is used (wholey or in part) in a number of commercial products.\\
+hardware support is good, from raspberry-pi's to supercomputers, and because of its truly 'libre' license, is used (wholly or in part) in a number of commercial products.\\
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-I mainly user FreeBSD for servers in the cloud, as it's robust and easy to manage, and can run all the tasks i need. it was the goto os for this website for those very reasons.\\
+The test-based install is old-skool, so it's quick and easy to spin up a server.\\
 At home, it's installed on one of my Raspberry-PI 3b+ serving DNS via Unbound.\\
-It for the basis of my FreeNAS data storage system, inside my PS3 and PS4, my Nintendo Switch and my Pioneer Plasma tv, and have running on an old PC. as well as many vms.\\
+It for the basis of my FreeNAS data storage system, is inside my PS3 and PS4, my Nintendo Switch and my Pioneer Plasma TV. It's running on an old PC, as well as many vms on my lan and lab networks.\\
 At work it performs, web, wiki, proxy, dns and system-monitor duties.\\
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-because the install is old-skool, its quick and easy to spin up a server.\\
+A FreeBSD-Desktop is not hard, but requires a little more work, which might put off those windows, mac, or desktop-linux users so used to graphical installers, and full-featured ready2go distros.\\
-a FreeBSD-Desktop is not hard, but requires a little more work, which might put off those windows, mac, or desktop-linux users so used to graphical installers, and full-featured distros.\\
+Graphics support has sometimes been lacking, but more often the lack of vendor support and/or commercial software support means BSD can be a 2nd-class citizen.
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-to update a release and apps \\
+Keeping FreeBSD base updated is easy, # freebsd-update fetch, freebsd-update install \\
-# freebsd-update fetch && install \\
+upgrade to the next version, # freebsd-update -r 13.2-RELEASE \\
-# pkg update && upgrade \\
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+Maintain additional packages, # pkg update, , pkg audit, pkg upgrade, pkg search, pkg info etc... \\
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 find disks \\
 #fstyp /dev/ \\
 #gpart show \\
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+ZFS filesystem with ''zpool'' and ''zfs''\\
+Boot environments with ''bectl''\\
+linux binary compat \\
+hypervisor with ''bhyve''\\